The very last time I visited the nest and became absorbed in a line of incoming ants, I heard the shrill squeaking of an angry hummingbird overhead.
A huge bee zoomed past, and just behind my head a hummingbird beat the air into a froth of sound, as vibrant as the richest tones of a cello.
I would like to tear the delicate feathers off the hummingbird to punish her.
But I still wait that littleHummingbird welcome me to New York.
Be my Princess and let me carry you to my castle in the mountains; it is a little savage among the Tartars, but I hope the hummingbird find it in her heart to make her nest there with me some day.
The hummingbird studs the outside of its nest with lichens, and the vireo drapes a cobweb curtain around her fairy cup.
How the plumage of a cardinal, or indigo bunting, or hummingbird glows in the sunlight, and reflects to our eyes the most intense vermilion or indigo or an iridescence of the whole gamut of colour.
Certain it is that our ruby-throated hummingbird robs many webs to fasten together the plant down, wood pulp, and lichens which compose her dainty nest.
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I'm glad I don't have to pump food down the throats of my youngsters the way Mrs. Hummingbird has to down hers.
She said that Hummer the Hummingbird is a sort of second cousin to Sooty the Chimney Swift," replied Johnny Chuck.
As a hummingbird feeder it even outranks the golden platters of the century plant.
The violet-throated Lucifer hummingbirdmay sometimes be found at a mescal in blooming season.
Was there one among them with a ruby throat, like that of thehummingbird who feasted in the Cardinal-Flower Path near Peter Piper's home?
Every now and then a ruby-throated hummingbird darted quickly above the water-parsnips straight to the cardinal throat of the other flower, and found refreshment served in frail blossom-ware of the glorious color he loved best of all.
I had never before seen a hummingbird fly so slowly nor heard from one of them such a prolonged vocal sound.
The Black-chinned Hummingbird is like all the other birds of its kind.
He dashed back and forth among the branches and white blossoms, the hummingbird in close pursuit.
The Black-chinned Hummingbird has a long and narrow range extending along the Pacific coast from Southern British Columbia southward into Southern Mexico, where it passes the winter.
So even as little a body as a hummingbird can show selfishness in a marked degree.
The female Black-chinned Hummingbird seems to be at least one of the exceptions that prove the rule.
It is goodbye to summer when the last hummingbird forsakes our frost-nipped, northern gardens for happier hunting grounds far away.
A hummingbird that lived in my garden sipped from a sprig of honeysuckle that I held in my hand.
Three times the Hummingbird circled round her head with buzzing wings, but she drove him away.
As the Hummingbird is very swift, she had no doubt of the result.
The Hummingbird passed him at breakfast time and again secured a long lead.
In the painted cup the bracts, which enfold the insignificant yellowish cloistered flowers like a cape, render them great service in attracting the ruby-throated hummingbird by donning his favorite color.
When the tiny ruby-throated hummingbird flashes northward out of the tropics to spend the summer, where can he hope to find nectar so deeply secreted that not even the long-tongued bumblebee may rob him of it all?
Bumblebees now hurry in, and an occasional hummingbird takes a sip of nectar.
From early May untll the middle of October, the ruby-throated hummingbird forsakes the tropics to spend the flowery months with us.
Now he was a hummingbird and flew over the mountains to the tobacco field and pulled some of the leaves and seed and put them into his medicine bag.
But the Crane flew steadily all night long, passing the Hummingbird soon after midnight and going on until he came to a creek and stopped to rest about daylight.
This time it was hardly midnight when he passed the Hummingbird asleep on a limb, and in the morning he had finished his breakfast before the other came up.
The race between the Crane and the Hummingbird (p.
At last theHummingbird offered, but the others said he was entirely too small and might as well stay at home.
The Hummingbird was so swift--almost like a flash of lightning--and the Crane so slow and heavy, that she felt sure the Hummingbird would win.
The Hummingbird woke up in the morning and flew on again, thinking how easily he would win the race, until he reached the creek and there found the Crane spearing tadpoles, with his long bill, for breakfast.
Then he opened his medicine bag and took out a hummingbirdskin and put it over himself like a dress.
On the fifth and sixth days it was late in the afternoon before the Hummingbird came up, and on the morning of the seventh day the Crane was a whole night's travel ahead.
When the Hummingbird arrived in the afternoon he found he had lost the race, but the woman declared she would never have such an ugly fellow as the Crane for a husband, so she stayed single.
The next day he gained a little more, and on the fourth day he was spearing tadpoles for dinner when the Hummingbirdpassed him.
At the word the Hummingbird darted off like an arrow and was out of sight in a moment, leaving his rival to follow heavily behind.
Then he took off the hummingbird skin and put it into his medicine bag, and was a man again.
When we remember that the hummingbird lays but two eggs, the rapid extermination of some of the species is evident unless this wholesale slaughter is stopped.
Another hummingbird rushes in, knocks the one I covet off his perch, and the two go fighting and screaming away at a pace hardly to be followed by the eye.
An inch in depth and the same in breadth furnished ample quarters for the twin hummingbird babies whose home it was.
If I had not read Mr. Torrey's description of hummingbird feeding, I should have thought the green-clad dame was destroying her offspring, instead of tenderly ministering to their wants.
An hour later a hummingbird appeared, perhaps the same one, without flying near the apple-tree.
Hummingbird feeding has been graphically described more than once; but when the food-bearer arrived I seized my glass, eager to see it again.
Nothing was ever more bewitching to watch than that atom in feathers, the hummingbird mother.
The hummingbird is the most pugnacious bird in America.
A man had a hummingbird whom he kept alive a long time by letting him go free when he seemed to need change of food.
One the size of a bean is large enough to hold a hummingbird baby, till it is old enough to come out.
When a hummingbird finds a vine full of sweet blossoms, or a bed of bright nasturtiums, or any good place to feed in, he claims the whole of it for himself.
The way the mother hummingbird feeds her babies is curious.
But hummingbird mothers and flicker mothers have a different way.
A young hummingbird looks about as big as a honey bee, and a robin baby not much bigger than the eggshell he came out of.
In several of the National Parks a number of species of hummingbird are found.
He further relates a curious circumstance of finding a hummingbird in the upper part of a barn with its bill stuck fast in a crack of one of the large timbers, dead, of course, with wings extended, and as dry as a chip.
She has given the hummingbird a jewel upon his throat, but no song, save the hum of his wings.
The Buff-bellied Hummingbird seems to be uncommon in Coahuila.
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