A Good Man and I were having our coffee on the deck yesterday morning, basking in the warm spring sun and feeling very excited for the day ahead. ‘LOOK!’ whispered A Good Man, pointing to our ‘wool tree‘. There, hovering in the air was a magnificent hummingbird. He was dressed in his shimmering green suite and his red cravat and he was looking intently at the colorful wool roving on the tree. I could see him thinking, ‘Oh, this will be perfect! She’ll love me for this… I’m getting lucky tonight! Whoooo hoo!’. He grasped a tuft of wool in his tiny beak and pulled. Alas, he wasn’t strong enough to get it off. He moved onto the next tuft, same thing… I could see him getting worried. On the third try, the lovely soft wool separated from the branch and off Mr Hummingbird buzzed, very happy with himself and his find. A Good Man and I felt just delighted that our ‘wool tree’ was really working. What a gorgeous nest our hummingbird was going to have… how lucky his chicks would be, nestled warmly in our colorful roving.
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The nest is sooooo pretty. I clicked on the photos, and I’m amazed at all the teeny tiny bits of stuff in the nest. So many different things used to build it!
What a great story about your little wool thief. We have hummers visit our flowers and feeders every summer, but I have never even thought of this. I’m going to have make a wool tree now! I would love to see that.
I’ve never seen a hummingbirds nest before. Thank you for the photos…I loved seeing them. I remember how excited I was the first time I saw a hummingbird in the wild…it was just last spring! How fun to know that your gift of wool to the birds is appreciated. :)
Just perfect that you and your husband actually got to see the hummingbird pluck away a bit of your wool. Warms the heart that when you imagine your wool keeping some baby birds warm and snug. It’s wonderful when these things we try actually work!! Lovely little hummingbird nest too.
That is so cute!
How big/small is the nest?
I’m asumming its only a couple cms.
Your so lucky to have a Hummingbird in your garden. We don’t get humming birds in Australia…Are they a shy bird?
It must of been so exciting when the Hummingbird was taking the wool..:)
How wonderful is that?
No hummingbirds here at all *sigh*
Beautiful nest! Thank you for sharing this.