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- Sometimes,the smallest of thing
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can change your life.
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When we moved from New
York to this suburban house
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in Las Vegas, we found a note on a piece of cardboard
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on our back porch with an arrow pointing up.
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It read be careful,
hummingbird's nest above.
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To our surprise, there
was a tiny nest straight
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on the clothes line between
old wooden clothes pins.
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As we stared in wonder,
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suddenly a female hummingbird flew in.
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This is her story.
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Just about three inches
long, we named this little
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winged friend Honey.
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She's a black-chinned hummingbird.
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She winters in Mexico and
returns to the same nest.
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When the star jasmine
blooms, filling the air
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with its sweet fragrance.
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She will soon lay her
precious eggs in the nest.
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And the tiniest objects will hatch.
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Oh Honey knows, cats are dangerous.
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She keeps eye on them and
will attack if necessary.
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She's a protective and attentive mother.
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Well she's starting to work on her nest.
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Shh, let's watch.
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Honey gathers plant fibers for her nest.
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Backyard offers a variety of resources
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and she knows the best
material from experience.
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The nest has been built on a clothes line,
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cleverly using a clothes
pin as a stabilizer.
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She lines the inside with a soft material.
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Her little feet kick the inside,
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pressing the top with her wing
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and she uses her strong bill
to push material in place.
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She makes several trips per hour.
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She's not picking bugs
here but she finds soft,
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plant fibers on the ground
like little parachutes
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from floating seas.
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She returns with her
cautious zig zag flight.
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Spider web is a key construction material.
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The stickiness binds the fiber together
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and giving the nest
strength and flexibility.
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She skillfully wraps the
nest with spider silk
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using her tongue and long bill.
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She covers the top edge
inward, forming a lid
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preventing her egg
falling out in high wind.
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After about five days, her nest is ready
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for arrival of her eggs.
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It is at the dawn, the
magic moment arrives.
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A hummingbird's egg is the
smallest egg of all birds.
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It's about the size of a coffee bean
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but compared to her tiny
body, it's enormous.
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It's like human delivering
a 25 pound baby.
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After the second egg arrives,
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Honey sits on the nest night and day.
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About two weeks, she incubates her eggs
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and protects them from
predators and high winds.
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She touches the eggs with her tongue.
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Is she checking the temperature?
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Assuring the chicks' proper development,
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she often rotates the eggs with her feet.
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Not just sitting of course,
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she feeds flower to flower
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and busy gathering more
material in the yard
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creating maximum security
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and comfort for her new chicks.
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Sometimes, she has a
surprise visitor to her nest.
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She shows this visitor he is not welcomed.
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Those male black-chins don't
participate in nest building
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or raising chicks.
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Honey patiently waits alone on the nest.
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The moment has arrived.
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Their emerging begins.
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Immediately Honey flies
in and feeds sweet nectar
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and bug soup to the first chick.
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They look like little fat
raisins, so we name them
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Ray and Zen.
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Because chicks are born naked,
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with only downy feathers on their back,
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Honey sits on the nest keeping them warm
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for the next several days and nights.
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Leaving only to procure food.
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Around day 10, curious
eyes open to the world.
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They start to instinctively
flap their little wings.
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Rapidly growing Ray and
Zen, they demand a lot
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of prodding and fat.
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Honey skillfully catches bugs in mid-air.
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Kissing flowers to collect sweet nectar.
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Inadvertently, she's
pollinating these flowers
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and quite often she comes back to the nest
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with pollen stuck on her head and beak.
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She regurgitates her
special mix into their crop.
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Cleaning is an important daily ritual.
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It conditions pheasants for flight.
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With oil from special
gland under their tail.
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It's not just itching and
scratching as it appears.
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Ray and Zen have been kicking around
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to stretch the nest for more space.
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This one spot became weak.
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Honey's repairing it.
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Another unwelcomed visitor
when Honey is away.
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Was this bird just curious
or were the chicks too big?
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All eggs and chicks are
very vulnerable to predators
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and Honey could have
lost them in an instant.
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It was a close call.
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Honey is a busy single mother.
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Protecting her territory and
constantly foraging for food.
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Feeding time is more
frequent in the morning
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and before sunset.
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Although here we show
most of their activity,
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chicks still sleep a lot.
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Hovering is one of the unique
skill for hummingbirds.
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It becomes handy for
Honey when Ray and Zen
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are getting big and no
space for her to perch.
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Chicks watch Honey fly away
and start their practice
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in this small nest
filled with love curious
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about the world beyond the porch.
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Departure time is getting near.
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Their flight training
intensifies everyday.
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They can flap their
wings longer and faster.
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Hummingbirds average wing beating
somewhere between 50 to 70
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times per second.
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Ray and Zen's brand new wings are starting
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to make good hums.
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They also need to master
controlling the angles
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of their wings and body
positions to fly like Honey.
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With each practice, they
develop strong muscles
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to become light weight
champions of flight.
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Ray is ready to go but not without Zen.
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Honey, the guardian,
gets agitated if our cats
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are anywhere near.
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Sometimes excited chicks
lose their balance.
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They could fall
accidentally into the mouths
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of the sleeping giant.
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She's constantly warning
the cats to move away
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with her aggressive chatter.
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We have seen her attacking the
sleeping giant in the past.
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This time, the giant takes
her hint and walks away.
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Another successful defense of the nest.
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After three weeks, the
morning of departure arrives.
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This will be their last
feeding on the nest together.
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Ray takes off first.
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Once out of the nest, never to return.
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Picking a safe landing spot
is the first challenge.
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Finding food is another challenge.
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Honey acknowledges Ray's
location but pacifies Zen.
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She will have to gather more food for Ray.
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Finally Ray's courage is rewarded.
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Fledglings need to be fed by their mother
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several times a day for another week or so
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until they learn how to locate
food sources on their own.
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Now Honey is busier than
ever feeding Ray and Zen
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in separate locations.
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Alone in the nest, Zen
watches as the world goes by.
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Imagining her adventure.
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Ray sits nearby waiting.
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Zen is being called.
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Now is the time.
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Fledglings call their mother
with their high pitched chops.
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As Ray anxiously waits
for Honey to return,
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Zen attempts to fly around the world.
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Instead she grabs onto her
friend to ask for directions.
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Honey ignores Ray's pleas for more food.
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She's still looking for Zen.
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She spots Zen hanging out
on the tip of the palm.
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Oh how Zen struggles to
find a secure place to land.
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Zen finally lands on a vine.
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And Honey rewards her with sweet nectar.
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Hungry and curious,
little chicks will learn
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which flower is tasty and worth visiting.
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Who are the dangerous predators
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and eventually will head
south for the winter.
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Ray and Zen's exciting
adventure has just begun.
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Honey must be so proud.
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As a Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said,
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"A journey of a thousand miles must begin
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"with a single step."
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For a little hummingbird, it
must begin with a single flap
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to start their long journey.
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We are happy to have
witnessed their first flight.
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- I was a photographer in New
York for 30 some odd years
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doing advertising and editorial work.
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We looked for a place
and we decided Las Vegas
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was a good destination
'cause a lot of friends
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would come visit you in Las Vegas.
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Well when we got here, we
opened the door, walked in,
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went out on the back porch
and discovered a note
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written on a piece of cardboard.
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We started looking at
this hummingbird's nest,
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we were astounded, we had never
seen a hummingbird's nest.
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At this point, we said,
we hadn't even unloaded
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our clothes or anything,
we just virtually grabbed
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the equipment and set up the equipment,
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started photographing and that
was the start of the book.
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- When we moved here, we
were working on the book,
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another book project about our cat.
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So when we saw the nest,
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and the nest being such a great location,
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we thought well this can be another book.
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- Having this clothes line
with a 360 degree view,
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is a photographer's dream.
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If you were photographing at a tree,
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you'd be fighting branches and leaves
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and getting a ladder up there
and then you wouldn't have
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very much control of the light.
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In the advertising business,
I always had control
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of what I was doing.
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Out here, I was a victim,
always I felt of the elements
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and of the bird.
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I had to try and react
to whatever was happening
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at the moment.
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It was sort of like
shooting a sports event.
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You're chasing back and forth
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and you sort of know
what's going to happen.
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You know she's gonna come into the nest
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but you don't know if
you'll be at the right angle
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to get whatever the action is.
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The nest is so close to the roof
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that you cannot put a camera above it.
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It would be much too dangerous.
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Also you couldn't get to
the controls of the camera
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to adjust it or focus it or anything.
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Composing it would be much harder.
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We solved this by using
this front surface mirror
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that we have which is a scientific mirror
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they use for bouncing
lasers off of them labs.
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So that was a real solution
since a regular mirror
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gives you a ghost image.
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This is very sharp and very clear
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without a green tint
that a normal mirror has.
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- So we spent about three
years, and because finally done
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and published and we had
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a book signing in Mandalay Bay.
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There's a nice book store there.
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We thought wow, this
is great, we are done,
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we are so satisfied, beautiful book.
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We came back home, it was spring
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and we saw Honey back on the nest again.
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We thought oh maybe, maybe we
should start shooting video.
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When we started video,
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the book project did help us
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because we already seen the
nest activity for three years
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and we learned about timing.
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After she lays eggs, and incubation time
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is about two weeks
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and then after the chicks hatch,
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about three weeks they fly.
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Those schedule did help us to prepare
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and anticipate what is
going on in this building
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or feeding or those kinds of activities.
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- The real benefit of
this nest is if we go back
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to the idea that you have
360 degree access to it
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'cause when you find
the nest out in nature,
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you fight, of course all the trees,
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but you fight the wind.
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This is terrific because
it's out of the sun,
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it's out of the wind, it's
out of the view of predators.
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There's no rain.
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She's obviously a very smart bird.
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In the middle of this clothes
line, no predator can get
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to her unless it's a flying predator.
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A good example of how big the nest is,
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it's about the size of a
half of a walnut shell.
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Now you've got the eggs
of the hummingbird,
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which are the size of a coffee bean.
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You have these two coffee
beans inside the walnut shell.
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- Something like that.
- Yeah.
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The actual hatching
process will take anywhere
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from an hour and a half to three hours
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for one egg to hatch.
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- It seems like
it takes very big effort
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to make the first hole
and then they will rest,
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maybe hour, maybe two hours.
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- Before they peck the next hole.
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- Right and then of course,
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each one's different and
but usually peck and rest
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and then started to put, put,
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three holes, then it's quite fast.
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- Right, then I
guess the oxygen comes in
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and they really start pecking.
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I always say it's equivalent
to them unzipping the egg.
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- That's probably about hour.
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- Two hours.
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It took us more than three years to film
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the entire sequence.
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- I didn't find the hatching,
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the first year of hatching
shot was good enough.
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Since egg is so small,
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you can see them but not quite details.
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So we wanted to get a better shot.
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That first year actually
Honey came back on the nest,
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second time.
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Then that second time was
wind kicked on the nest
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and great magnification.
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- Caused a problem.
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- We waited the
next year to get the shot,
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but to our surprise, the eggs were gone.
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We don't know exactly what happened,
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but those tiny eggs are
tasty treat to some--
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- Some predators.
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- So the third year,
we said we're gonna be here,
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we're gonna do this and she
came back, we were ready.
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- Well it did seem like
it was almost our child,
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our grandchild and we
got very involved in it.
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We had the camera set up
for so long around the nest
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that when the babies flew off,
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the first thing they did
was they flew onto the lens
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of the camera and sat
and looked into the lens.
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- Hummingbird seems like a very curious bird
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and we often have experience.
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You have camera, and
you're filming one bird
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and this bird comes around your head,
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flying over and teasing.
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We learned as we should,
you can't move video cameras
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to chase hummingbirds all over the place.
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- It doesn't work,
it makes you nauseous
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looking at the footage.
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- They fly like.
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All over the directions.
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We can feel her dedication.
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She's so
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concerned about cats
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being under the nest
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when the chicks are trying to flap wings
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and sometimes they really literally
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like almost fall upside down
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and we almost want to go
reach over and put the hands
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on them and felt how she was feeling.
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- The great joy that
we've had in doing this
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is being sort of invited into
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watch the entire
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sort of metamorphosis of this egg
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developing, seeing the
movement of the chick
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inside the egg before it hatched.
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All the way up to the
point of the babies flying
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off of the nest.
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Really being personally invited
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into this hummingbird's world.
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- I hope I can show that and people to feel
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that kind of experience
we had through this.
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- Now we're gonna wait for
Honey to come and feed you.
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So I'm going to bow out a picture.
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See you later, bye, bye.
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Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
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- On you.
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On you.
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- Where is she?
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- It's on your belt.
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- I have to move.
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Because I'm in a very awkward position.
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And I gotta go to the bathroom.
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- Lift up your sleeve.
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Do you see it?
- Mm-hm.
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