Adventures In Birding

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Facts about our friend the Black-chinned Hummingbird…

• In cold weather, a Black-chinned Hummingbird may ingest three times its body weight in nectar in one day.
• Their nest can expand as nestlings grow. The spider and insect silk holding it together stretches and allows the nest to grow along with the growing chicks.
• A group of hummingbirds has many collective nouns, including a “bouquet”, “glittering”, “hover”, “shimmer”, and “tune” of hummingbirds.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

-William Blake

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

-Salvador Dali