Learning To Fly

This morning when I went out to check on the hummingbirds, I found the one that had fledged sitting in the grass, and doing fine. Mom no longer lands to feed it, she feeds it while she is hovering over it, that has to take some good flight skills, and beak coordination.

This one was fun to watch today, it is learning how to fly. It will get it's wings going then work it's way back and forth across the piece of dry grass it's sitting on in this shot. Sometimes it flies off it a couple inches then gets back up on it. I wonder if it will be flying by tomorrow.


The other one seems content on the nest by itself so far, but I bet it wont be long before it decides to join the other one again.