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Archilochus colubris
frequent female Hummer, she prefers the home made nectar over the store bought stuff :)
our backyard
Spotted on Dec 13, 2012
Submitted on Dec 13, 2012
3 Comments
sometimes when I am cleaning out their feeders or weeding they fly so close to me and I think they are bumble bees and I almost want to swat them away so I have learned to not be so skiddish. They come so close and if I stand right at the feeders long and still enough they are only like a foot or foot and a half away. so incredible!
although I don't know the conversion from "beats" to "flaps" I'm gonna go with your estimation
I believe it's about 55 times a second, while hovering of course :o)