One Fledgling Is Flying

The Fledgling that's been on the ground for a couple days is now flying. It flew a very short distance last night, just a couple of feet, and spent the night on a low honeysuckle stem, was there this morning, and spent most of the afternoon there. The other is still on the nest.

Here's a shot of the hummingbird that's fledged with an ant on the tip of it's beak.

It was just after I took this next shot that it decided it was time to fly. I would have loved to get a picture of that too, only one problem, it landed right on top of my camera! I was quite surprised at that. It sat on my camera for a few minutes while I talked to it, then flew off again this time even farther.

It flew up into a nearby branch of the blackberry bushes, and made a fairly nice landing. It didn't take long for it to start exploring the branch it landed on. They seem to like checking things out with their beaks and tongues.

Here's a shot of another hummingbird that flew over and was sipping some nectar from the Jupiters Beard, this one wasn't shy at all about me being right there. This is one of the ones the mother hummingbird runs off when she catches it in the area.