Just got back from an all day ATV trip.

We saw lots of wildflowers, and wild animals. 

The coolest thing we saw was a baby hummingbird.

At first it kind of looked like a bug but, upon examing it, I realized what it was! See Below!!!

Pretty Cool Eh?

Fun Facts About  HummingBirds

1. There are seventeen species of hummingbirds in North America.

2. Hummingbirds flap their wings 50 to 200 times per second. Generally the faster time is in courtship.

3. They can fly up, down, right, left, backwards, upside down and even loop-de-loops! Amazing!

4. They have tiny little feet that are only good for perching, scratching or preening. This means if they wish to move, even a few inches, they must fly.

5. Hummers can starve to death in about an hour. Oh Dear!

6. They eat every 10 minutes throughout the day.

7. Even though they are tiny birds, they consume up to 50% of their body weight in a day. Little pigs aren’t they? LOL!

8. Their main diet is sugar which they get from plant nectar or from kind-hearted people with feeders.

9. They also eat bugs for protein.

10. Hummingbirds have grooves on the sides of their tongues. This is to help catch insects.

11. Their tongues can take up to 13 licks a second.

12. Hummers have very good memories and will even be able to remember where they found food from the previous year.

13. Visual displays are how they communicate with each other.

14. These tiny little birds establish territories and will fight to keep others away. The males fight to keep a constant food source and the females to build a nest and feed her babies.

15. They use their bills and claws to fight but do not usually harm each other during a fight

16. Hummingbirds will sometimes attack larger birds even hawks or crows! I wonder if they win.

17. Do hummingbirds sing? Not really, but they do chirp and make deep-throated guttural sounds.

18. They are sun worshipers and love to take sunbaths. They do this by facing the sun and fluffing out their feathers.

19. They take baths by using a cupped leaf, a birdbath, puddle or even sprinklers.

20. A hummingbird’s feathers are iridescence. Actually only a third of the feather is iridescence.

21. Hummers can fly up to 25-30 mph! I think that is really fast.

22. Their wings flutter in a figure 8 motion while flying.

23. They are only found on the American continent.

24. The Bee Hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world and only measure in at around 2 inches.

25. The Giant Hummingbird is the largest. Gee, that’s an original name.

26. A hummingbird called the Reddish Hermit weighs the same as a fly. That is pretty small.

27. Early Spanish explorers called them Flying Jewels. I think that fits them very well.

28. Ok get this…Hummers are the only bird that has an insect that will eat it. Praying mantis's think they are yummy!

29. Hummer’s average lifespan is 3-6years. The record is 12 years.

30. They lay two eggs that are about ½ inch long. That is tiny!

31. The eggs hatch in 13-22 days depending on the species.

32. Will hummers nest in bird houses? No.

33. They make their nests from plant fibers, plant down, moss and spider webs.

34. The nests are about the size of half a walnut shell.
35. With no feather the average hummer is about the size of a bumblebee.

36. Hummers migrate generally south for winter and north for summer.

37. Some hummingbirds migrate up to 2000 miles from their summer home in Canada to their winter home in Central America.

38. A few are only found in one or two states.

39. Why do we call them hummingbirds? They get this name from the sound their wings make when flying.

40. The iridescent feathers found at the throat of many hummers are called gorgets.