Thursday, February 17, 2011

Humming Birds / Colibris

As light as a ping pong ball. It is the only bird which can fly backwards and hover in mid air like an helicopter.
A slight change of position can turn a green bird...
into a redish one by refraction of the light on the top layers of the feathers.
They love the nectar of the flowers in the garden.
The female builds a beautiful nest with pieces of lichen glued with spider silk.
They also love the sugared water of this feeder in Costa Rica....
They can have different colors: green and yellow..
or be single colored.
They are so cute that I came back at night, but the feeder was empty because.....
a kinkaju had stolen their sugared water.

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