Sunday, March 25, 2007
The day before my paeds exam, something really exciting happened right outside my window. A pair of hummingbirds were building a nest 1 metre away from my study table!
Spent a good hour or so in total just staring at them going to and fro, and the female bird doing her marvellous weaving. Apparently, the male goes round foraging for nest materials, then calls to the female who flies over to him and picks the stuff up. I'm feeling really good about this, since they were using a lot of material from my garden. They actually destroyed one of the coconut fibre pots I use for some of the Nepenthes, pulled out my poor Tillandsia usenioides (spanish moss) and used some bouganvillea bracts for some colour. And I believe I saw Brownie's hair too in that nest!
Took an hour's worth of videos, shall cut and join them and post a short snippet here soon. =) Can't wait for the babies to arrive! The last time I had baby birds in the house was when YX and I rescued a bunch of abandoned sparrow chicks, and my, that was fun! More fun than those 4 kingfisher chicks I had years and years ago in any case - those stank to high heaven from the fish I fed them with.
Vaguely thinking of building a bird table, lol. Yes, right outside my window. But chances are, it'll be filled with uglies like crows and mynahs instead of nice things. Why is it that our local fauna is so grotesque?
Wenky
8:05 PM
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