How small?

22Jul07

July 22, 2007: Went out into the garden this morning to find the fledgling apparently overnighted in the plum tree. She moved around to the far side of the tree, but by late afternoon was still calling the plum tree home. The mother Anna’s continues to come to the tree to feed the fledgling, and the fledgling is still making short flights from one branch to another.

To give an idea of just how small the nest and the Anna’s hummingbird is I shot a couple of photos today of the nest with a tape measure and then superimposed them at the correct scale onto a photo of the mother and hatchlings. The nest is about 2 1/4 inches across and the mother Anna’s is 3 inches from the top of her head to her tail feathers. The nest could easily fit in the palm of your hand, with room to spare.

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