{"id":1045,"date":"2012-08-05T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T17:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2012-08-05T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T18:39:49","slug":"beautiful-nest-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Nest, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

They grow up so fast!<\/h2>\n
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Baby broad-tailed hummingbird<\/p><\/div>\n

Hummingbirds seem to do everything fast, including growing up.\u00a0 It was just a week ago, this bird was nothing but matted feathers.\u00a0 I suspect she’ll be ready to leave the nest in a few days.<\/p>\n

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Kids will be kids. Click for larger.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I visited the nest yesterday and was very surprised how fast this bird had grown.\u00a0 I wanted to get a shot of mom feeding the baby, but I didn’t have the correct lens with me.\u00a0 So I got up early this morning and hiked back to the nest with a bunch of gear.\u00a0 These photos were very challenging from 35 feet away.\u00a0\u00a0 These birds are tiny.<\/p>\n

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Open wide! Mama's going to shove her long sharp beak into you.<\/p><\/div>\n

She’s feeding it mostly insects.<\/p>\n

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Even deeper!<\/p><\/div>\n

So this Wikipedia article<\/a> says that this species incubates eggs (usually 2) for 16 days and the young will leave the nest in about 23 days.\u00a0 So to recap:<\/p>\n

Part 1<\/a>:\u00a0 The egg she is incubating is about to hatch or has just hatched.<\/p>\n

Part 2<\/a>:\u00a0 I’m guessing the chick is about a 7-10 days old.<\/p>\n

Part 3:\u00a0 I’m guessing the chick is about 15-18 days old.<\/p>\n

This was probably a once in a lifetime opportunity.\u00a0 I’m grateful to mama hummingbird for tolerating me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They grow up so fast! Hummingbirds seem to do everything fast, including growing up.\u00a0 It was just a week ago, this bird was nothing but matted feathers.\u00a0 I suspect she’ll be ready to leave the nest in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[21,128,121],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-birds","tag-hummingbirds","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}