The Birth of a Hummingbird - Neatorama

Incredible pictures of a hummingbird, from egg to leaving the nest. It is hard to imagine just how small they are from the pictures, so keep in mind the opening of the nest is about the size of a quarter!

http://community-2.webtv.net/Velpics/HUM/ - via nowthatsnifty

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by ninigoat.

Well, I hope this bird will live a long life.

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It is really amazing when you see the true scale of how small they are. Neat pics!

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Looks gross

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Hummingbirds are awesome.

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I'd have to agree with Jill.

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Nature is awesome

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this has nothing to do with this post, but does anyone know how to update the user profile image with wordpress? their support pages only show info about maintining blogs and not us regular folk that just use it to post here.

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@seekshelter - we use gravatar.com (which is a part of Automattic, the company of the WordPress guy, Matt Mullenweg) for the user images

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thanks! i signed up so long ago that i forgot about that...

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KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

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That's an alien!!

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Humming at birth....
Marvelous... :)

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Rmeember how tiny we are? An ovum!

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Wow! That's so amazing! I am impressed that WebTV still exists.

And the hummingbird pics are beautiful, too!

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You know how we Mammals find pretty much all mammals babies cute, even the ugliest. But we don't really think baby other-than-mammals cute (like these humming birds. Why is that? Do you think birds find their own offspring cute? They probably think mammal babies are gross.

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What a coincidence! Just the other day, I had an urge to seek out slow-motion hummingbird videos on YouTube, and I stumbled across this little "nest documentary"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG59PaCiiDg

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Baby Bird: Moooooooom!!!

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