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pumping food into the stomach of her nestling. She probed so deeply and with such vigor, I was sure she was doing injury to the young bird, the size of a bumblebee.
Accounts vary on the time young spend as nestlings until they graduate to the fledgling, out-of-the nest, stage. One ornithologist stated it to be from six to 18 days; another reported that the young in a nest he observed remained in the nest for 28 days. No doubt, the time young remain in the nest until they can fly with ease on their own is dependent on the weather and other factors not known to us.
A flight speed of 60 miles per hour for the Ruby-throated will not surprise anyone who has spent time observing these birds. At the same time, learning that hummingbirds make a nonstop flight of 600 miles over the Gulf of Mexico, from the coast of Louisiana to the Yucatan Peninsula, is startling. Before making this flight, the birds feed heavily and increase their weight by 50 percent — their way of providing fuel for the trip.
For many years the legend persisted that hummingbirds
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