And right now, there's the furious feeding
at my hummingbird feeders... dozens of them as they try to fatten up for their southern flight!
Dear Dan, Hmmm... you looked like a Van Halen groupie with wrecked balls explaining to a cop that you were swiping
at a hummingbird (looking to suck the nectar out of your eyeballs) that looked like a swarm of killer bees (another rock group by the way,» The Killer Bees») whilst fishing for a set of keys prior to showing the interior of a house (that stands right before you) to tire - kickers via smart phone technology, all the while expecting to make a commission already?
Ella is a family law lawyer
at Hummingbird Lawyers LLP with a special focus on cases involving custody and access issues.
Guest can enjoy a dip in the hot river rock spa pool and be pampered with a relaxing body treatment offered
at our Hummingbird spa, or relax at the lava bar or lakeside pavilion and watch the surreal sunset turn into a star studded night.
With a stay
at Hummingbird Beach Resort in Soufriere, you'll be convenient to Morne Coubaril Estate and Anse Chastanet...
Property Location With a stay
at Hummingbird Beach Resort in Soufriere, you'll be convenient to Morne Coubaril Estate and Anse Chastanet Beach.
Whether you visit for a week or a month, the stunning memories you make
at Hummingbird Hill are sure to stay with you forever!
The comfortably furnished great room
at Hummingbird Villa makes a nice spot for an afternoon nap.
However, more than 70 percent were reported in the US, where praying mantises often capture birds
at hummingbird feeders or plants pollinated by hummingbirds in house gardens.
At Hummingbird we use the term raw for foods processed at or below 115 °F.
When you invest in a Bitcoin company, you're taking a risk not only on that startup but also on the overall Bitcoin space, said Pamir Gelenbe, partner
at Hummingbird Ventures, a European early - stage venture fund, during Tuesday's panel.
During my visit, I got to put my finger on a feeder
at a hummingbird sanctuary and watch the bird land on my hand.
Not exact matches
Rather than looking
at a few of the words within the query, Google's
Hummingbird looks
at thecombinations of words and tries to ascertain the true meaning of the search.
(SEW - 11 / 2013)-- Link Building
At The Speed Of Natural (SEL - 11 / 2013)-- Wherefore Art Thou
Hummingbird?
Making sure content is easy to find by the right audience in search is an important part of our consulting
at TopRank Marketing, so I am acutely aware of the changes in the search optimization world from Panda to Penguin to
Hummingbird.
Digital marketing strategist James Gunter presented «
Hummingbird for Content Strategists»
at Confab Central.
At this event, I also met the founders of the
Hummingbird Project who travel to remote areas in India to show farmers the hidden world beneath their feet often carrying a microscope and portable generator.
Currently the
hummingbirds at my mom's house are eating her out of house and home.
I've never tried to take
hummingbird pictures, but you're facing two problems: you probably want decent depth - of - field to nail decent focus, so you probably want to shoot
at f8.0 or so.
And, as far as sweet little birds, when I lived in AZ, the migrating
hummingbirds would tap
at my kitchen window when the feeder was empty.
We stayed
at a beautiful little Bed & Breakfast with a patio garden in full bloom and hundreds of
hummingbirds.
Gazing
at the gorgeous photography of My Name is Yeh / / Tending the Table / / Nourish Atelier / / Renee Kemps / / In The Making By Belen / / Vegetarian Ventures / /
Hummingbird On High / / Le Jus d'Orange / / Apt.
T rises from his pillow
at 5:30 like a
hummingbird who has just smoked methamphetamine.
We discovered this great toy
at the doctor's office and the little
hummingbird loved it so much that we got one for her last Christmas.
Anna's
Hummingbird is really a particular species perfectly located
at the western portion of the United States it doesn't migrate
at all.
The Urbini
Hummingbird Lightweight Stroller is available for $ 99.99
at Walmart.
«My wife Cindy was with me and she saw the
hummingbird,» he recalled of their late - August, mid-morning walk
at the popular wildlife sanctuary.
The threatened species include
at least 9 % of bees and butterflies and about 16 % of vertebrate pollinators such as bats and
hummingbirds.
At the University of Edinburgh, researchers built fake flowers with sugar inside to reveal how
hummingbirds tell time.
Male Anna's
hummingbirds (Calypte anna), which look as if they're wearing bright - pink scarves, swoop
at speeds over 20 meters per second, emitting a shriek like a startled rodent.
A new look
at a virtual zoo - full of animals, from
hummingbirds to bats to elephants, suggests that many vertebrate genomes have the same accordion - like properties.
Recent insights by other scientists into the mechanics of
hummingbird tongues prompted Harper to take a closer look
at the shape of the tongue tip in bats and how it is involved in gathering nectar.
An earlier study by the same researchers found that Anna's
hummingbirds (Calypte anna) accelerated more slowly and had other performance falloffs
at altitudes higher than the birds» home range.
A battleship may not be as maneuverable as a kayak, but in a study of 25 species, larger
hummingbirds outdid smaller species
at revving or braking while turning.
To understand how floral characteristics can combine to influence the decisions bumblebees make about which flowers to visit, Robert Gegear, assistant professor of biology and biotechnology
at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), had bees forage on arrays of paper representations of typical «
hummingbird flowers» (red coloration, horizontal orientation) and «bee flowers» (lavender or blue coloration, upright orientation).
To figure out how the
hummingbird - sized insect does this, researchers created robotic flowers that move back and forth
at different speeds.
The expansive filling mechanism uses the elastic recovery properties of the groove walls to load nectar on the tongue in an order of magnitude that allows the
hummingbirds to extract nectar
at higher rates than are predicted by capillarity - based foraging models.
In fact, if a
hummingbird were the size of a human, it would consume energy
at a rate more than 10 times that of an Olympic marathon runner.
«
Hummingbirds have an optimal fuel - use strategy that powers their high - energy lifestyle, maximizes fat storage, and minimizes unnecessary weight gain all at the same time,» says Kenneth Welch, assistant professor of biological sciences at UTSC and an expert on h
Hummingbirds have an optimal fuel - use strategy that powers their high - energy lifestyle, maximizes fat storage, and minimizes unnecessary weight gain all
at the same time,» says Kenneth Welch, assistant professor of biological sciences
at UTSC and an expert on
hummingbirdshummingbirds.
But songbirds aren't the only reason birds are so varied and interesting: Bursts of new species appeared among island birds, waterfowl, woodpeckers,
hummingbirds, and gulls, among others,
at various times during avian evolution, researchers report online today in Nature.
What looks like a celestial
hummingbird is really the result of a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy
at a whopping 326 million light - years away.
At 12 cm, Eocypselus rowei, discovered in Wyoming by commercial fossil hunters, is built on the same small scale as
hummingbirds (upper right) and swifts (lower right), its modern - day cousins.
- Although Ruby - Throated
Hummingbirds are banded
at Hilton Pond from late March through mid-October, 40 percent of 2,315 hummers have been captured in the month of August.
Particularly useful is
hummingbirds» ability to generate rapid wing movements, which helps with agility, says Andrew Biewener, a biomechanist
at Harvard University.
Hummingbirds are the fighter pilots of the avian world, diving and weaving
at speeds of up to 55 kilometers per hour — then turning on a dime to hover midair, wings frantically beating, as they refuel on nectar.
Either way,
hummingbirds are producing new species
at a decelerating pace, probably because they are running out of space or ecological niches to fill.
Evolutionary biologist Jim McGuire of the University of California, Berkeley, and his collaborators have found that although some
hummingbird groups have saturated the available space in their environments, others are still developing into new species
at an extraordinary rate.
Aug. 23: See
hummingbirds up close as experts catch, measure and band the tiny birds
at the Yew Dell's Botanical Gardens
Hummingbird Festival in Crestwood, Ky..
Although some insects are known to forage
at high elevations, he says that there are relatively few insects in the cold, high mountains, leaving room for
hummingbirds to take their place pollinating flowers.
The identification of a gene that controls whether petunia flowers attract pollination by hawkmoths
at night or by
hummingbirds during the day is reported in a paper published online this week in Nature Genetics.