Welcome to the 2011/2012 season of the Victoria, BC Hummingbird Nest..


Cap of Fluff, Flossie and Tiny.. Courtesy of Gail M.. Thank You Gail...

Eric Pittman has been recording several families of Anna’s Hummingbirds in Victoria, British Columbia, including Tweet and Fluff. Their nesting season is from December to July. During that time period the female will lay two eggs almost every six weeks. In fact, when one batch of chicks gets too large for her to sit on, she will make another nest and lay another two eggs and she sits on those while still feeding her nearly fledged chicks! Female hummingbirds do not let male hummingbirds near a nest because the male hummingbird's bright colors might alert predators in the nest area..male hummingbirds will also attack a female hummingbird that enters his territory that he has not mated with...after the female mates with him, she will be allowed to roam his territory without too much worry...
Thanks to Eric Pittman for an interesting look into the lives of one of our smaller birds!

Link to cam.HERE
Eric's home site..HUMMINGBIRDS UP CLOSE
Link to 2010/2011 Nesting Season.HERE

EGG INCUBATION PERIOD... 16-18 DAYS

FLEDGE DATES...21 -28 DAYS

Cam on..
March 12, 2012.
Eggs laid.

SQUEAK...FIRST CLUTCH
Two eggs were in the nest when cam came on March 12, 2012..
First egg hatched... March14, 2012... from what we could see by Mom's movements at the nest..
Sec. egg hatched....March16, 2012.. again from what we could see by Mom's movements at the nest..
Sweetie fledged..April 8, 2012.
Chicklet fledged April 10, 2012

SQUEAK SECOND CLUTCH... Cam came on Friday, June 1, 2012 .. Squeak is incubating two eggs.
First egg hatched.....June 2, 2012
Second egg hatched..June 3, 2012.
Ratttle and Humm had a forced fledge.. Crow knocked them out of their nest ( they were about to fledge anyway)...June 25, 2012

Link to more information about Rattle and Humm..

HERE

April 14, 2012.

We are now viewing Fluff and her two chicks Barnum and Bailey.


Scap by Gail...Thank you Gail...

Eric is not sure.. but he thinks the eggs hatched April 12 or 13, 2012.

Fledged
Barnum and Bailey were attacked by a Wren on May 4, 2012 forcing their fledge from the nest... they are both doing well..
Note.. The chicks were expected to fledge the same day this happened....

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David H. has been lobbying for a place to store HWF videos that are posted on the forum so they can be easily accessed and retrieved whenever they are needed.


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Enjoy!

Hi gemini..Thank you for info...

Good Morning all viewers of this nest.. i e-mailed Eric Pittman to find out if there was any signs of a nest cam soon...

i heard back from Eric saying "nothing yet, i see mating activity but i haven't found a nest yet..probably any day now." ..

Thank you Eric for your response... we are looking forward to another Victoria BC Hummingbird nesting season.

I will keep checking..

Friends

I was in touch with Eric Pittman again today about a Victoria B.C. hummingbird nest cam .. here is his response..

Hi Bev
Yes, I have one nesting in my yard which I will be webcasting soon and I have two others with chicks right now.
Eric

Thank you Eric.. we are looking forward to another season ... enjoying the Victoria B.C. Hummingbirds...