Talk:Hummingbird
From Academic Kids
On a lark, I picked up an old (copyright 1897, third edition from 1907) children's book "Citizen Bird" for a couple of bucks at a used bookstore. It's got about a hundred of these engravings showing various North American birds; while modern (color) photographs might be ultimately preferable, I can put more (http://leuksman.com/misc/boids.jpg) of these up if desired. --Brion 21:10 Jan 18, 2003 (UTC)
- The book can also be gotten online from the Library of Congress website: [1] (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=amrvg&fileName=vg14/consrvvg14.db&recNum=302&itemLink=r%3Fammem%2Fconsrvbib%3A%40field%28NUMBER%2B%40band%28amrvg%2Bvg14%29%29&linkText=0) but the scan quality isn't so hot (grayscale 115 dpi with crappy contrast, 2-bit 50% threshold at 300dpi, or 2-bit diffusion at 300dpi). --Brion 23:20 Jan 18, 2003 (UTC)
I've just added a paragraph on how hummingbirds sometimes become trapped in garages. It may seem a bit random and/or out of place. I was motivated to do it because earlier today it happened in my garage, and the first thing I did when trying to understand the bird's apparently strange behavior (why it didn't simply fly out the wide-open door) was look up this article. There was no information about this phenomenon in the article, so I used Google to find it elsewhere.
I thought it was interesting and useful information that possibly deserved to be mentioned in Wikipedia's article. I'm not sure whether I added it in the most appropriate place, or whether it's really worth having in the article at all, so I leave it to the other users to decide.
By the way, I did eventually manage to free the (very tired, but hopefully otherwise OK) hummingbird from my garage. :)
Fusion 01:16, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
how to make hummingbird nectar
We have a screened in porch overlooking a small forest behind our house in the Hudson Valley in NY. Today a hummingbird came up to the screen pausing in front of where my wife was sitting. It hovered, then did a half lap from the porch to an empty feeder we have back there. I came here looking for an article like "How to Make Nectar." I'll add some good links I found once I learn how to edit pages here.
A pic not used
There is a pic I posted belize40.jpg that would be approritate for this page if some one wants to use it Belizian 19:01, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
