tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41785306451680493492024-03-12T20:09:29.718-04:00The Baiting Hollow Hummingbird SanctuaryA blog that provides up-to-date information about the world's leading (according to Google) hummingbird sanctuary, on high bluffs overlooking Long Island Sound, Riverhead, New York. The sanctuary is private and not open to the general public. Paul's Email: paul.adams%stonybrook.edu.
We sometimes livestream from the sanctuary, at youtube.com/channel/UCvTj9WdD0zItyBLI6m-U9Og/livePaul Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866196394764849380noreply@blogger.comBlogger712125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178530645168049349.post-67176202098588663412019-09-05T21:23:00.000-04:002019-09-05T21:24:36.181-04:004K hummer video<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Reminder: I'm now posting mostly at facebook.com/bhhummingbird. The Sanctuary is closed to the public.</div>
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<br />Paul Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866196394764849380noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178530645168049349.post-90581929998217996542019-05-11T22:58:00.002-04:002019-05-11T22:58:21.209-04:00return to the sanctuaryArrived back at the sanctuary, and busy filming:<br />
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<br />Paul Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866196394764849380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178530645168049349.post-73972812033379646292019-04-22T20:53:00.002-04:002019-04-22T20:53:26.007-04:00Hummers and Century Plant<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Century plants (Agave americana) are abundant on Eleuthera and when they flower (once in their lifetime, and usually after 30 not 100 years) they attract hummingbirds. The flower stalk is about 30 feet high and the plant dies as it flowers. Here's one along the oceanfront</div>
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Here's a general view of the flower</div>
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and here are 2 clips of hummers feeding at it:</div>
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A second Century Plant is blooming in the back garden at Calypso, and a juvenile male Woodstar hummingbird is guarding it:</div>
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In the final clip, this young male attacks a hummer that starts feeding on "his" flowers:</div>
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When she took off she flew directly to the nest and started feeding the babies:<br />
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<br />Paul Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866196394764849380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178530645168049349.post-79625940315840641512019-03-03T14:48:00.000-05:002019-03-03T14:48:09.126-05:00Hummers in the BahamasSince Christmas I've been at our winter place "Calypso" on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera, and have rather neglected this blog. I see hummingbirds here every day - the local variety known as the Bahama Woodstar, which is even smaller than the ruby-throat, though rather similar in appearance and behavior. However, the male's throat is purple rather than red:<br />
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Yesterday, march 2, I spotted an active nest, about 12 feet off the ground in a casuarina tree:</div>
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The mother seems to be incubating eggs. Here are more videos, shot today march 3:</div>
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<br />Paul Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866196394764849380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178530645168049349.post-29873328503232867132018-11-19T21:25:00.000-05:002018-11-19T21:25:28.377-05:00summer hummer close-up; climbing roses<br />
It froze at the sanctuary and a number of flowers are dead, but some are still hanging on, though I think the predicted Thanksgiving deep-freeze will finish them off. I'm planting more antique climbing roses at the base of the little cherry-trees, after having grown them on from tiny plants in pots throughout the summer on the deck, away from the depredations of the numerous deer. Now they are big enough to train up the tree-trunks. Then I wrap them up in chicken wire cages. I now have at least 20 climbing up cherry-trees, and in mid-june (and only then) they put on quite a show. Here's another clip of a hummer feeding at Black-and-Blue, this time closer-up (or is it close-upper?).<br />
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<br />Paul Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866196394764849380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178530645168049349.post-45739139792198325742018-09-10T06:39:00.001-04:002018-09-10T06:39:31.056-04:00Shrimp Plant perching, feeding<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This hummer often perches near a feeder at the extreme northwest corner of the garden, overlooking Long Island Sound and the beach far below. I often live-stream this view (at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvTj9WdD0zItyBLI6m-U9Og/live?&ab_channel=FredSmith and at facebook.com/bhhummingbird) but the live-streams are of poor quality/resolution (often only 360P) because of my limited internet bandwidth. So here's a short clip of this area filmed with my handheld SONY camcorder. At first the hummer is perching on a twig of the shrimp plant, he then feeds at a couple of the flowers, then at the feeder, and finally I zoom out to show the view.Paul Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866196394764849380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178530645168049349.post-25752753755933035352018-09-05T06:01:00.002-04:002018-09-05T06:01:58.710-04:00Hummer-Canna Close-Up; VisitingHere's a close-up view of a hummer feeding at canna flowers.<br />
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The sanctuary is private and NOT OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. However friends, old and new, are welcome to visit - but please by appointment only!Paul Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866196394764849380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178530645168049349.post-31253946244787024702018-09-03T22:29:00.000-04:002018-09-03T22:29:24.080-04:00Hummers fighting over Canna<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I've been mostly posting at Facebook, but here's a recent video at the sanctuary, with 2 hummers arguing over who gets the canna flowers. </div>
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Once again Daniel Hauben is painting at the sanctuary - here are a couple of the pastel canvases he's working on. We are also <a href="http://youtube.com/channel/UCvTj9WdD0zItyBLI6m-U9Og/live">livestreaming</a> Danny at work!</div>
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The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvTj9WdD0zItyBLI6m-U9Og/live?&ab_channel=FredSmith">livestreams</a> from the sanctuary are rather blurry, but this is mainly due to the digital zooming I'm forced to do because Fred's perch is 100 feet away from the camera, rather than due to my very limited upload bandwidth. Here's a part of today's livestream but the recording was done direct to the disc on the camera rather than via the Youtube livestream process. This recording was then slowly uploaded to Youtube, but here the bandwidth isn't a limiting factor, yet the video is almost as blurry as the livestreams.<br />
One possible way to avoid this problem would be to use a more powerful telephoto lens, in conjunction with a interchangeable lens camera, but this could be very expensive, and clearly would not work as long as my upload bandwidth is poor. I had hoped to install satellite internet (Viasat) but unfortunately this cannot be done on the roof of the back cabin because of trees, It can be done on the roof of the front cabin, but unfortunately I'm having this re-roofed because a racoon made a large hole up there, and this process keeps getting delayed because of the possibility of rain.Paul Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866196394764849380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178530645168049349.post-90685247128564667592018-07-19T17:24:00.002-04:002018-07-19T17:24:14.763-04:00young hummers starting to show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm starting to see what I think are recently fledged hummingbirds visiting the sanctuary, sneaking in when Fred isn't around.<br />
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We live in an increasingly cacophonous world. Even here in Baiting Hollow, where the background noise level (in the absence of aircraft) is around 20 dB, quiet is rare, mainly because of aircraft (for example, the above recent livestream). We are on the direct routes from Manhattan to East Hampton (mostly smaller low flying aircraft, around 2500 feet or lower) and Europe to JFK (jumbo jets at 10,000 feet), and there's an enormous amount of General Aviation, including a nearby farmer who jumps in his plane and circles over me whenever the skies are quieter. But I remember as a child of 10 looking up with interest when once every few days a plane appeared in the sky (as I still do in Eleuthera). The following graph (https://www.icao.int/sustainability/Pages/Facts-Figures_WorldEconomyData.aspx) tells the story:<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Exponential growth since 1950 - doubling time approximately 11 years! What this means is that in my lifetime we have completely lost one of the most important attributes of the world: outdoor quiet! It's irrevocably gone, like the dodo, the Carolina parakeet and the ivory-billed woodpecker. I find this incredibly sad, and also appalling. Peace and quiet would, after food, shelter and friendship, top almost everyone's list of desires, but to all intents and purposes it's completely gone (except perhaps deep in the <a href="http://onesquareinch.org/">heart</a> of the Hoh Rainforest of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula). All in the name of "convenience", and not even a whisper of protest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px;">A large-scale statistical analysis of the health effects of aircraft noise was undertaken in the late 2000s by Bernhard Greiser for the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px;"> </span><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Umweltbundesamt&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Umweltbundesamt (page does not exist)">Umweltbundesamt</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px;">, Germany's central environmental office. The health data of over one million residents around the Cologne airport were analysed for health effects correlating with aircraft noise. The results were then corrected for other noise influences in the residential areas, and for socioeconomic factors, to reduce possible skewing of the data.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Tödlicher_Lärm'_2009,_Page_45_10-0" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_noise#cite_note-T%C3%B6dlicher_L%C3%A4rm'_2009,_Page_45-10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a></sup><br />
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The German study concluded that aircraft noise clearly and significantly impairs health.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Tödlicher_Lärm'_2009,_Page_45_10-1" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_noise#cite_note-T%C3%B6dlicher_L%C3%A4rm'_2009,_Page_45-10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a></sup> For example, a day-time average sound pressure level of 60 <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibels" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Decibels">decibels</a> increasing coronary heart disease by 61% in men and 80% in women. As another indicator, a night-time average sound pressure level of 55 <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibels" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Decibels">decibels</a> increased the risk of heart attacks by 66% in men and 139% in women. Statistically significant health effects did however start as early as from an average sound pressure level of 40 <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibels" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Decibels">decibels</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Tödlicher_Lärm'_2009,_Page_45_10-2" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_noise#cite_note-T%C3%B6dlicher_L%C3%A4rm'_2009,_Page_45-10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a>"</sup></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">However, I'm sure you also have found these livestreams (and the archived versions thereof) are rather blurry. I felt that the main reason was probably my limited upload bandwidth (~ 0.7 mbs with Verizon DSL). So I've been comparing the livestreamed version with simultaneously recorded straight-to-disk on the camera itself. Above are a couple of examples of the latter, which can be compared to the archived livestream itself:</span></div>
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Of course the clips are very short, and the livestream is very long (11 hours!) but it turns out there's not that much difference in the quality. Please note that I'm annotating the archived livestreams with the timings of the perching episodes so you can immediately jump to the interesting bits. So in fact much of the blurriness is simply due to the pixellation introduced by the digital zoom I'm forced to use because of the long distance from camera to perch. Please Fred, start using a closer perch!<br />
If you use Chrome as your browser, you could also consider adding the "Youtube Playback Speed Control" extension. This is a marvelous gadget that enables speeded-up, up to 16X compared to the standard 2 X) playback of Youtube videos. If you use this on one of my 8-hour livestreams it rolls by in 30 minutes! Of course Fred's head jerks back and forth like a jackhammer, but don't worry it's not going to fall off! With this device I've discovered some very brief perching episodes that I cannot spot by simply scrubbing through the video, which might show only 1 frame every minute. Of course if you have not already done so you should also add the wonderful Adblock extension. Youtube without Adblock is hell.Paul Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866196394764849380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178530645168049349.post-59499569164104842822018-07-11T21:53:00.007-04:002018-07-11T21:53:49.842-04:00Fred after sunset<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Most evenings, well after sunset, Fred joins me on the front deck overlooking the Sound, where the light hasn't yet completely faded, and feeds at the coral honeysuckle.<br />
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<br />Paul Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866196394764849380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178530645168049349.post-28606974330134739192018-07-08T22:20:00.002-04:002018-07-08T22:20:40.389-04:00Cardinal Snaps Fred's Perch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I restarted livestreaming a few days ago with a new camera and vantage point. The above video shows yesterday's 8+ hour livestream, and if you jump to the time mark 1:12:35 (click on this timing in the caption) you'll see a huge cardinal arrives on Fred's perch and snaps it off! At first he has to cling to the remaining stump with one leg, but then regains his footing. Fortunately the remaining truncated twig is just long enough that both Fred and Bob can still perch. In fact Fred arrives at 1:22:32 and without missing a beat does a precision landing on the tiny stump.<br />
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