[TN-Bird] Re: Interesting viewing of Ruby-throated Hummer

  • From: "Reese, Carol" <jreese5@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "heatherlarkin42@xxxxxxxxx" <heatherlarkin42@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 22:30:17 +0000

I think, that the adults consume the ants and then regurgitate them, so perhaps
that was the problem?

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Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: Interesting viewing of Ruby-throated Hummer

I thought ants killed hummers? I just read an article by a hummingbird rescue
person that described the agonizingly slow death of a baby hummingbird who had
been fed ants (because the people who found her thought she needed "protein".)
The rescue person said that the baby's sac (?) was clogged with ants and she
was unable to take in the nectar from the dropper. I am now entirely confused!
Can you please clarify?

Thanks so much!
Heather Larkin Vogler
Cheatham County



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(paraphrased from Henry Ford)

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:42 AM,
<likebird@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:likebird@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Birders,
This morning I saw a Hummer doing something I have seldom seen, gleaning. I
have a 10' sunflower plant with many blooms and it is mostly full of
Goldfinches. I looked out this morning and there was a female Hummer gleaning
a stalk and I could see the tiny, tiny ants she was licking up with her long
tongue. (The Sunflower is just a couple of feet from a window) That was very
amazing for me!
Linda Kelly
Chattanooga
Hamilton Co.

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