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  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,268
    One in my garden last week on my red million bells .Never seen one before ,thought it was a bird to begin with .
  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 768
    I had another today! So hard to photograph dammit!  I got a few blurry images, nothing I'm prepared to show to the public  :D
  • B3B3 Posts: 26,954
    Are they becoming more common or are we just noticing them more?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 768
    Someone posted something on here to suggest they have been more common this year.  I think I would have noticed them in the last couple of years since working from home, which I was never allowed to do before 2020 when I would have missed them.
  • Dave HumbyDave Humby Posts: 1,145
    Crazybeelady said:
    I had another today! So hard to photograph dammit!  I got a few blurry images, nothing I'm prepared to show to the public  :D
    Don’t be shy! Here is my awful attempt at capturing some video. I might be a David, but certainly not an Attenborough  :D

    https://youtu.be/VnstG6zTneA
  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 768
    That's good @Dave Humby, I don't know why it's not occurred to me to just film! I did manage to get a couple of better pics yesterday, but I put them on the insects of the day thread.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,576
    B3 said:
    Are they becoming more common or are we just noticing them more?
    They come over from Europe, so the numbers vary, but yes someone said it's a good year for them this year - maybe it was too hot on the mainland even for them! 
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,576
    Fire said:
    Slow-worm said:
     Imagine if they were the size of cats!

    Imagine if he had actual humming birds here. We have parakeets, why not escaped hummers?
    Oh yes! I'd love to see hummingbirds flitting around the garden! 
    I don't know much about them, there goes an hour looking on the interweb. 😄
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,576
    Hummingbirds are spectacular in more ways than I thought! 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird
  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 768
    I saw my first hummingbirds this year when I went to America, very exciting! I was so confused as to what they were at first, then it dawned on me!
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