121. Deb Collins, Watercolor Artist, Hiawassee, GA> Specializing in watercolors of hummingbirds, magnolias, florals, located in Hiawassee, Georgia. http://www.debcollins.com/

To browse our site to see the items for sale, please click here. Special effects running...your browser does not support Java. The watercolor works by Deb Collins feature not only magnolias, hummingbirds and songbirds, but all of the abundant floral life found in the garden. From her studio in Hiawassee, her art is strongly influenced by the ever-changing beauty of the North Georgia Mountains. With well over two hundred images now in print distribution worldwide, her images include looks that expand from "Cottage Garden" to the ever-growing "Hemmingway Look." We'd like to thank you for visiting this website and herein will take you on a tour of images available unframed or framed. You'll also enjoy a peek at "Deb Collins Watercolors," the artist's signature gallery where you can enjoy not only art but an extensive and creative line of accessories for the home. The images you see reflect the creative matting and framing talents of her husband, Russ - a 25 year veteran of the art and framing business. The original work is available on many of the images featured within this site. Quotes are available upon request.

122. Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory - Hummingbird Watching The hummingbirds of Arizona, hummingbird banding, frequently asked questions, hummingbird tours and workshops, and photographs. http://www.sabo.org/hummers.htm

SABO's Photo Gallery click on the pictures below for more information Hummingbird Watching in Southeastern Arizona Hummingbirds are among the most popular birds in the world and a favorite of visitors to southeastern Arizona. To find out more about these living jewels, choose from the following: Hummingbird F.A.Q.s - Frequently Asked Questions Arizona Hummingbird Survey Hummingbirds of Arizona Photo Album: Hummingbird Banding on the San Pedro River ... Photo Album: Arizona's first documented Ruby-throated Hummingbird Resources for Hummingbird Lovers: Attracting and Feeding Hummingbirds A Field Guide to Hummingbirds Advanced Birding Video Series: Hummingbirds of North America Hummingbird Hotspots: Madera Canyon: Santa Rita Lodge Cave Creek Canyon/Portal SABO's Banning Creek Field Station Ramsey Canyon Preserve ... Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Hummingbird Activities: Hummingbird Banding on the San Pedro River Arizona Hummingbird Survey Other Hummingbird Links: Hummingbirds! Web Site by Lanny Chambers

123. Flowers And Plants Which Attract Hummingbirds To Your Garden Gardeners guide to creating a hummingbird garden, including flowers and plants which attract hummingbirds to your garden, as well as creating a suitable http://www.thegardenhelper.com/hummingbird.html

The Garden Helper Gardening Basics "How to" Guides House plants ... The Gardener's Forum Creating a Hummingbird Garden Habitat Hummingbird Flowers and Plants What flowers are good to plant to have hummingbirds visit your flower garden. My mother has an Angles trumpet that she has a hummingbird visit. Are there other flowers I can plant? Thank you for your time.. April 3,1999 A good hummingbird garden takes more than just flowers for the hummingbirds. Aside from the nectar filled flowers which you will grow, a good hummingbird garden must also consist of an entire habitat for the birds. Make certain that there is always fresh water available for drinking as well as for bathing. Create both sun and shade areas in your hummingbird garden. Hummingbirds need a place in shade to perch as well as to build their nests. Willows and Eucalyptus trees provide nesting materials which your hummingbirds will use, along with bits of leaves, spider webs, moss, and lichens to build their tiny nests. Hummingbirds must feed 3-5 times per hour and your hummingbirds may become reliant on your garden for it's food, but there may be periods when there are no blossoms from which they can get nectar. It is a good idea to provide hummingbird feeders hung about thirty feet apart throughout your garden for these times. The best color for a feeder is bright red to attract the birds from a distance. Never fill your feeders with anything but sugar-water mix of 1 part sugar to 4 parts water. Do not use food coloring of any kind, and never, never use honey. (Honey can develop a fungus which can be fatal to hummingbirds)

124. Sonoma County's Raford House Bed And Breakfast Inn A place of quiet beauty in the hills of western Sonoma County, this classic Victorian rests on a prominent knoll surrounded by towering palm trees and oldfashioned flower gardens boasting more than 100 rose bushes that play host to hummingbirds, orioles and swallows. http://www.rafordhouse.com

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125. Hummingbirds - Fast Facts - Weekend Gardener hummingbirds are very tiny birds with long bills. hummingbirds sip the nectar from tubular flowers with their long tongues, which they draw in and out http://www.chestnut-sw.com/fastfact/hummingbirds.htm

Fast Facts: Hummingbirds Hummingbirds are very tiny birds with long bills. They only weigh about a tenth of an ounce and measure about four inches long, but their acrobatic skills are unmatched. They can fly in every direction - up, down, sideways, and even upside down. They are among our fastest birds and can fly up to 60 miles per hour. Hummingbirds sip the nectar from tubular flowers with their long tongues, which they draw in and out of a flower about 13 times per second. They enjoy all colorful flowers, but studies have shown that their favorite color is red . In fact, many red flowers have adapted themselves to attract hummers. Not only are the flowers tubular, but their sugar concentration is about 25 percent , which is what these tiny birds prefer. If you want to set up a hummingbird feeder to attract them, use the same concentration found in nature - one part sugar to four parts water More Fast Facts Weekend Gardener

126. Hummer House - Christoval, Texas A unique guest house near San Angelo offering the opportunity to view wildlife, especially hummingbirds, in a natural setting. http://www.hummerhouse-texasgems.com/

Now available on video: "The Excitement and Caring For Hummingbirds" Call 325-255-2254 to order your copy today! Dan and Joann Brown P.O. Box 555 (1.8 miles South on RR 2084) Christoval, Texas 76935 Phone: 325-255-2254 Fax: 325-255-2463 Open Year-round! Call for information, reservations or viewing appointments. Enjoy the natural splendor of Hummer House, located 16 miles south of San Angelo near the quaint town of Christoval, Texas. Our location showcases the concentration of birds and animals of many species in their natural prime wildlife habitat. Our geographic location at the Brown Ranch sets this site apart from any other in the state. Hummingbirds that migrate every spring to this river valley with pecan and oak timber is what provides the perfect habitat for their nesting sites. The concept of Hummer House is the offering of an extraordinary private cottage in the natural setting of live oak and pecan timber for people to enjoy nature at its finest in a non-smoking, clean air home with no pets. Hummer House, completed in the Spring of 1996 is total electric with native rock exterior. It consists of two bedrooms, two baths, a complete kitchen and a living area with a queen-size sleeper sofa. Enjoy the large porch for relaxing and viewing wildlife.

127. Black-chinned Hummingbird - DesertUSA These hummingbirds feed on over 90 species of plants, with penstemon, agave, Blackchinned hummingbirds perform an elaborate courtship display during http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/jul/papr/h_bird.html

BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD (Archilochus alexandri) While its common name, "black-chinned hummingbird," is simple enough to not need an etymological (word origin) explanation, the scientific name, Archilochus alexandri, does not share the same fate. Three dictionaries of bird names provide three distinct etymologies. One states that the generic name, Archilochus, honors a 6th century B. C. Thracian poet who was famous for his "savage wit and flaunting of conventions." A second traces the name to the Greek "first among birds" from "arch" meaning "chief'" and "lochos" meaning "body of people." A third translates Archilochus to "chief brigand" from archos (chief or first in importance) and lochos (ambush or a company of men). The third dictionary ends the definition with a simple question: "But why? Because the bird steals the pollen from the flower and dashes away?" In all three cases, the word alexandri refers to a Dr. Alexandre, who discovered the species in the Sierra Madre of Mexico and sent it to Mexico City. One assumes he has a first name, but none has made its way down through the ages. Description The black-chinned hummingbird measures about three and one-half inches long with a three and three-quarter-inch wing span. It weighs three to three and one-half grams, which is about equivalent to the weight of a dime plus a dollar bill. The male is dull metallic green above and gray below. He has a black chin and upper throat with a violet, iridescent lower throat which is known as a gorget (pronounced gore-jet). A white upper breast looks like a collar against the gorget. The female lacks the characteristic coloring on the chin and upper throat and lower throat.

128. MACHU PICCHU PUEBLO HOTEL - AGUAS CALIENTES - CUSCO - PERU A fusion of utmost calmness, opulent comfort, Andean style and architecture. Natural beauty spreads over 12 acres of lowrise cottages, streams, gushing waterfalls, plantations and wild forest interspersed by stone pathways. Home to the world's largest collection of native orchids observable in their natural habitat (372 species), as well as a very large concentration of birds (162 species), butterflies (111 species) and wild hummingbirds (16 species). http://www.inkaterra.com/mpph/index.html

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129. Hummingbirds - DesertUSA hummingbirds are only found in the western hemisphere, so they do no appear in any culture’s legends and myths except those of North and South America. http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/jul/stories/hummer.html

HUMMERS by Pam L. Hendrickson John James Audubon called hummingbirds "glittering fragments of rainbows." Others have likened them to "flying jewels." The poet D. H. Lawrence once observed, "...it [a hummingbird] is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description." Metaphors aside, "hummers" are indeed, infinitely delightful. A few of the species include the brilliant Blue-throated c; the feisty, bright orange Rufous; the blue-green, sequined Broad-billed hummers; the elegant, emerald-throated Magnificents, which are the largest to breed in North America; and the tiny, purple-red-on-white Calliopes. Various sources have reported at least eleven different varieties in the Sapillo Valley. There are thirteen kinds in New Mexico, more than in all but three other states in the entire country. Hummingbirds are only found in the western hemisphere, so they do no appear in any culture’s legends and myths except those of North and South America. On the Pacific coast of Peru perhaps two thousand years ago, for example, a mysterious people carved into the desert surface what archaeologists call a "giant ground drawing" of a hummingbird. It (like many other giant ground drawings in the region) is so large that you cannot even see it in its entirety unless you are at least one thousand feet above the figure. If this seems like an extreme preoccupation with hummers, perhaps the sculptors can be better understood by considering where they lived.

130. Which Came First, Hummingbird's Bill Or Flower Shape? CNN http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/04/25/hummingbirds.ap/index.html

131. Home Page Of Hummer Bird Study Group To tell you about Rufous hummingbirds is a labor of love. Rufous hummingbirds are very cold hardy. They are hatched in a cold climate, they spend nights http://www.hummingbirdsplus.org/rufous.html

132. Miata Alignment Specs Miata alignment specifications for performance street and track driving. http://www.hummingbirds.net/alignment.html

Miata Wheel Alignment PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE PAGE before taking the specs to your alignment shop. Even better, print this page and ask the technician to discuss it with you before he starts. A precision 4-wheel alignment is the most important suspension upgrade you can make to a Miata. Without one, you wil not get the performance your Miata can deliver. The factory "alignment" specs have entirely too much ± tolerance, and while every alignment is a compromise, the Mazda specs are biased heavily toward low tire wear on cars that are never driven hard. The large tolerance also makes the dealer's prep job less expensive. The difference can be astonishing. Don't you want your car to behave the same way turning right as it does turning left? If performance doesn't impress you, how about safety? Fortunately, aligning a Miata properly is not difficult for a skilled technician, and is relatively cheap for the benefits gained. Miq's alignment specs I started with a Miq alignment, but I soon realized it wasn't aggressive enough for my driving style. I varied one parameter at a time until I got the balance I wanted. I don't like toe out, and I think street tires need more negative camber to work properly at comfortable, everyday pressures. An alternative view Here are my 1994 Miata's current alignment specs: Rear Toe: Camber: -1.75 degrees

133. Bird Watcher's Digest: Gardening: Planting For Hummingbirds Thirteen of the best plants for hummingbirds by the author of Enjoying hummingbirds More. http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/backyard_birds/gardening/plants_hummers.a

Bird Watcher's Digest - Backyard Birds Backyard Spotlight FAQs Bill's Top Ten Bird Feeding ... Gardening : Best Plants for Hummingbirds The Best Plants for Hummingbirds Thirteen of the best plants to attract your tiny feathered friends BUY NOW! This article was written by by Nancy Newfield, author of Enjoying Hummingbirds More (only $3.99 in our online nature shop!). In this excellent primer, Nancy Newfield offers guidance to gardeners who wish to attract and host hummingbirds. Detailed plant and flower charts give the eager hummingbird watcher a plan for greeting these tiny beauties with flowering plants and nectar feeders. (32-page, full-color booklet) Here's a taste of what you can learn in our Enjoying Hummingbirds More booklet: "What is the one best hummingbird plant?" This question comes up every time I give a program on landscaping to attract hummingbirds. If there were just one perfect plant for all parts of the country, for all situations, for the entire calendar year, I wouldn't have much to talk about. Of course, there are a number of plants (or family groups of plants) that work well over most regions of North America, and every hummingbird gardener should have several of them. Salvia Salvia splendens , a native of Brazil, is marvelously useful, and it was in my mother's salvia garden that I met my first hummingbird, a male rubythroat. Vast trays of salvia are displayed in nurseries, discount centers, and supermarkets around the country each spring. These plants are easy to find and even easier to grow. Horticulturists have outdone themselves in developing varieties to fit every nook and cranny around the yard. Several varieties get no larger than six inches, whereas others may grow to be three feet tall. Salvias are grown as annuals in most places, but they can become small shrubs in frost-free regions.

134. How To Attract Hummingbirds! Attract hummingbirds to your garden. Discuss hummingbirds Share your ideas or learn more from other Care2 members about how to attract hummingbirds to http://www.care2.com/channels/solutions/outdoors/45

Email MyAccount Login Home ... Healthy Outdoors > Flowers > How to Attract Hummingbirds! How to Attract Hummingbirds! More Flowers Solutions by Annie Berthold-Bond Care2.com Producer, Green Living Channels Hummingbirds are pretty, they pollinate flowers, and they can move their wings faster than any other bird. Simple Solution: printer friendly version If this doesn’t convince you to encourage hummingbirds in your yard, then just do it because they are a beautiful species, and will bring light to your life. Below are some tips to help. A birding field guide or a local Audubon Society chapter can help you determine if hummingbirds are normally found in your area and, if so, when. Ask your local nursery for advice about local plants that attract hummingbirds. (Columbine, impatiens, flowering eucalyptus, bottlebrush, tree tobacco, sage, honeysuckle, fuchsia, larkspur, trumpet vine, and silk tree are among plants that attract hummingbirds). Plant nectar-bearing plants or trees with flowers attractive to hummingbirds. Hang hummingbird feeders filled with one part sugar and 4 parts water around your property. Make sure not to use commercially available hummingbird mixes that are red, since almost all of them are made with synthetic dyes which won't be good for the birds. Add red to the bird feeder instead (hummingbirds are attracted to red.)

135. Hummingbirds And Hawkmoths - The Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds hummingbirds and hawkmoths. One of the most remarkable cases of mistaken identity in the animal world in the British Isles involves a large but unassuming http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/advice/hummingbirdhawkmoth/index.asp

Home Birds Advice Advice ... Fireworks and wild birds Hummingbirds and hawkmoths One of the most remarkable cases of mistaken identity in the animal world in the British Isles involves a large but unassuming moth. Every year many people are taken back as they see in their garden what appears at first sight to be a hummingbird hovering at the flowers. A careful check on the size and a closer look unmasks this imposter as a hummingbird hawk moth, Macroglossum stellatarum. The hummingbird hawk moth is a day-flying moth with a wingspan about two inches (50-58mm). It has a brown, white-spotted abdomen, brown forewings and orange hindwings. It is very swift on the wing and an expert hoverer. The wings beat so rapidly that they produce an audible hum and can be seen only as a haze. The darting movement from one flower to the next with the long proboscis uncoiled completes the illusion of a hummingbird. Another day-flying moth, the Silver Y, is often confused with the hummingbird hawk moth, but is smaller and darker. The hummingbird hawk moth is abundant and resident all around Mediterranean countries, and across Central Asia to Japan. Its migratory habits are well documented, with many thousands regularly migrating northward in Europe in the spring. There is also evidence of a return migration in the autumn.

136. Hummingbirds In Ecuador - Colibri - Pica Flor - Birdwatching - Exploring Ecuador Exploring Ecuador.Com Ecuador Galapagos Islands Guide. A complete guide to plan your stay in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands Travel information, tours, http://www.exploringecuador.com/en_ar_hummingbirds.htm

Travel Resources You need to know City Guides Routes Transportation ... Embassies / Visas Regions Guide Ecuador Regions Ecuador Highland Amazon Rainforest Galapagos Islands Ecuador Information Megadiversity Ecuador Map Center Ecuadorian Culture Ecuadorian Music ... Government Languages Español Deutsch English Shopping ... Contacts Ecuador Top Sites SalsaReisen Tour Operator Horse Riding Salsa Travel Tour Operator Climbing Ecuador Mountain Tour Operator ... Exploring en Español Land of Hummingbirds Fernando Ortiz, a renowned scientist from Quito, proposed that the name of the continent America be changed. He proposed that it be called something like "Land of the Hummingbirds" (Diario Hoy, December 1992). This name would stand for a unique characteristic of this continent: the presence of these small, agile, magical birds. Hummingbirds are found throughout the whole continent: from Alaska to "Tierra del Fuego", including the Caribbean islands. They are not found elsewhere in the world. Hummingbirds have been ever present in the American cultures. They have been found in the impressive formations in the Nazca desert in Peru. Aztecs had a warrior god called "hitzilopochtli", a mythical being half man and half hummingbird. Peruvian Polychromic ceramics and antique tapestries depict these birds. Antique cultures that inhabited the Ecuadorian coast represented them in their figurines and ceramic stamps.

137. Hummingbirds And Flowers We invite you to watch and count Rufous hummingbirds in Western North America. If you d like to participate by counting hummingbirds at your feeder http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/humm/count.html

Hummingbirds and Flowers We invite you to watch and count Rufous Hummingbirds in Western North America. We hope to establish not only arrival dates but peak movement dates throughout our region. And we hope to gather evidence for or against the long held belief that hummingbird movements coincide with the blooming of certain plant species. Are you really seeing a Rufous Hummingbirds? Current migration maps ( last update 4/25/2005 Trend analysis ... References To report first detection information for 2005, send an email to: celata@pacifier.com Please include the following: 1. location (include latitude and longitude if possible). 2. date of first detection 3. sex (males and females generally arrive on different dates and we want first detection reports for both). It is important that you include all the above information and that it is for the first date you saw hummingbirds in 2005. Since we do not have the capacity to monitor extra-limital (vagrant) reports, those reporting from outside the currently expected range for Rufous Hummingbirds (east of the Rocky Mountains) will not see their reports on any maps found at this site. We are also not currently able to track post-breeding or winter reports. Extra-limital reports are of interest however and may be reported to one of the following sites: Spring reports - Journey North Winter reports - Winter hummingbirds If you'd like to participate by counting hummingbirds at your feeder daily or counting flowers on bushes (you can do one, the other or both). This year we will continue to use

138. Northwest Hummingbirds Coming Soon Clean That Feeder Hummingbird Rufous hummingbirds arrive at my house (north coast of Oregon) on or about February 22. hummingbirds of North America. Academic Press, San Diego. http://home.pacifier.com/~mpatters/archive/humm/humm.html

Northwest Hummingbirds coming soon Clean that feeder Hummingbird Juice Is it really an Allen's Hummingbird? ID tips for Northwest Hummingbirds ... References Rufous Hummingbirds arrive at my house (north coast of Oregon) on or about February 22. Further south on the Oregon Coast they can be expected as early as the 15th of February. Arrival in the Willamette Valley and Puget Sound occurs in the first weeks of March. Males arrive first usually a week before females. Males also leave first, most having already headed to the south by June. Hygiene A clean hummingbird feeder is part of the responsibility we take on when we choose to feed those hummers. If you're like me, your feeder was left out over the winter and has some pretty scary stuff growing in it. Start out the cleaning process with a dilute (about 1:10) solution of bleach and water. I like to let all the feeder parts soak for several hours and then rinse them throughly. I follow this with an hour of boiling. This should get rid of all the black mildewy stuff and kill any remaining spores. Hummingbird Juice The recipe is simple: 1. Bring 4 cups of water to a full boil.

139. FOR-97: Hummingbirds: An Attractive Asset To Your Garden This description makes it understandable why hummingbirds have been called The arrival of rubythroated hummingbirds is timed to coincide with the flush http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/for/for97/for97.htm

Online Publications FOR-97 Hummingbirds: An Attractive Asset to Your Garden Thomas G. Barnes, Ph.D., Associate Extension Professor and Extension Wildlife Specialist, Department of Forestry This publication is about these fabulous "flying, flowered jewels" and how to bring them into your garden. Hummingbirds in History Perhaps the earliest written introduction of the hummingbird to our European ancestors occurred in 1526 when Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés wrote "...no bigger than the end of a man's thumb... and of such swiftness in flight you cannot see the movement of their wings...The colors shine like those of the little birds artists paint to illuminate the margins of holy books." This description makes it understandable why hummingbirds have been called "flying jewels." In 1770, John Lawson wrote in his diary "The hummingbird is the miracle of all our winged animals. He is feathered as a bird, but gets his living as the bees." In 1775, George Louis Leclerc wrote in L'histoire naturelle "...of all animated beings, this is the most elegant in form and brilliant in colour. The stones and metals polished by art are not comparable to this gem of nature."

140. Opus Birdfeeders hummingbirds Bird Identification, 1 2 3. The male Allen s Hummingbird is distinguished from the very similar Rufous by its green back and crown. http://www.opususa.com/birdident_hummingbirds.html

The male Allen's Hummingbird is distinguished from the very similar Rufous by its green back and crown. It has a narrow range along the West Coast. Anna's is the familiar backyard hummingbird to Californians. Unlike almost all of our other hummers, it does not head south from its breeding range in winter. Hummingbird feeders provide a means of getting to know a remarkable member of the animal kingdom. In addition to allowing wonderful views of such entrancing birds as the Black-chinned Hummingbird, your feeder is likely to attract orioles, woodpeckers and other nectar and sap eaters. The loud trill made by the wings of the male Broad-tailed Hummingbird is a common summer sound in the Rocky Mountains.

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