Good evening! My dear Readers!

Good evening! To you my dear Readers,
I though I Would stop by on this very Cold evening to wish you all well.

I have been busy writing and I will be getting back to my blog very soon. I have been working on a blog on the beautiful Long-tail Sulph hummingbird..  But for tonight I will be celebrating my birthday with my Husband and my Son.. So I wish you all well all of  you all over the world tonight. And I will be back again soon love you all my dear friends, and Readers so very much Peace and joy to you all...Wendy. 

The Wine-Throat Hummingbird

The Wine-Throat Hummingbird
These hummer's I have always found to be fascinating and quite

beautiful.
I haven't found any quite like them in the hummingbird family. 
The Male Wine-Throat hummingbird have extravagant magenta gorget but the throats of the female hummer's of these wines-throats are quite plain. These tiny hummer's inhabit humid and semi-humid forest, pine-oak woodlands and also shrubby type areas too. The wine-throat hummingbirds primarily feed on the nectar of their floral territories and are able to easily steal floral nectar from other neighorhooding  hummingbirds that are within the area, because of they resemble of a bee in size and their flight patterns too. 

These hummer's come from the highlands in Southern Mexico in

Chiapas South through Guatemala to northern El Salvador and Honduras. The elevation of these tiny bee like hummer's range is 1500 to 3500. 
Habitat  of these tiny bee hummer's is the Humid Evergreen forests, forest edge and shrubby growth that sits adjacent to these forest. They also can be found in high elevation of blooming flowers. 

Food of these gems - They generally visit large groups of flower plans in all strata, although these hummer's perhaps are more frequent at the lower elevations. There is little info on the type of flowing plantings and blooms flowers that these wine-throats love to be their source of food. Yet there are a few known in El

Salvador that the Wine-throat hummingbirds seemed to forage on the flowers of a plant  locally called Sacatinta [Fuchsia parviflora] which blooms profusely in September throughout the remaining of the year-

These flowers inhabit a wide area of open fields to brushy second growth and even woodland edges too. Sometimes these Fuchsia parviflora's have been seen clambering up through the crowns of tall trees toward the sunlight. 
Another flowering bloom that these tiny bees like hummer's like that produce an abundance's of nectar while blooming in the months of October thru December is the Estoraque - [Styrax Argentus] which grows to the heights of these small trees, its flowers attract a wide variety of insects and of course the Wine-throat hummingbirds.

On one occasion a male wine-throat hummer was observed feeding on these flowers on a lower branch of a chicharra about 3 to 4 meters from the ground. Seems very odd for such a tiny gem of a tiny bird to be so closed to the ground when I first research this hummer but I then learned that they can move very fast like a bee so they would be perfectly fine, as nature is. 
Breeding- These beautiful hummingbirds sing at dispersed links

with individual males separated by 25 to 30 meters. They are perch on a bare exposed twig in a bush or the lower branch of a tree, when they sing to the female wine-throat hummer's. It is a separated song that these male wine-throat hummer's will do for their females.

 

 

They will also spread their feathers of the red gorget 'all times' for

his ladies, while he makes a long looping flight around the ladies then returning again to the perch from which he will continue to sing again for the female  wine-throat's - then will do the whole act again.
These tiny hummer's nests in mid Aug in Guatemala contain two very tiny white eggs in a slender oak trees about 1.2 meters above the ground/ near the end of the a branch. 

I hope you enjoyed this post as much as I have.. I do love my hummingbirds. As I do believe that hummingbirds have a huge connections with the Fae world.. So if you see hummingbirds you are sure to be that there is fairies in your garden too! you just may not see them at first... 
For my love of the hummingbirds 

Love and blessing to you all my dearest Reader

(◕‿◕｡..."(✿◠‿◠)˙•٠•●♪♫♪❤❤♪   \(^o^)/  ☼♥ ☆°‧°﹒☆҉☆¸.✿¸¸.•´ ¸.•´.✿★ ✿★ ‿↗⁀☆҉☆ Wendy 

  

 

Goodmoring-Rosy

Goodmorning-
Hello, my dears, it's 27 degrees outside and it's freezing.... Here in 

 Washington Kent. I just wanted to let you know about my hummer Rosy. Yes, he is still at my porch side, protecting it as he always does even in this freezing temp's. I saw him this morning after taking my son to the bus stop. 
If any of you have hummers in this kinda conditions make sure you put thick socks over your feeders! Because the food you have made for them will FREEZE!  

I have posted this in my earlier ones about hummers and stories about my Rosy, but I just wanted to help all you folks that might have a few hummers that have stayed over the coldddddd! Winter and so you can know how to keep them safe and have food for them all the winter. The feeders that I use during the cold winters like this are the plastic or metal. And I check on them every day. When the temperatures get down to the 20's and teens you have to check to make sure that your food nectar has not frozen on them.  You must remember that this is their only source of food during this time.
If you need the food recipe that I had posted before- and you might have missed it my dear Readers- Here you are -o)
4 cups of water
1 cup of white sugar
1 teaspoon of Pure Orange Extract

Boil the 4 cups of water first, then add the 1 cup of white sugar till dissolved. Let boil for 1min, then cool after cooling add 1 teaspoon of the pure orange extract. Then put in a plastic container to keep in your refrigerator till needed. 
I hope these tips will help you all with your own hummers in these cold winter months. Wendy..

Kelpies Sculptures In Scotland

Kelpies Sculptures In Scotland
I found this article in my on-line news about 'Kelpies' World largest

Sculptures. I thought I would share with you all my dear readers -o), since I've noticed that my post on "Kelpie-Celtic Water Horse" has been on the top of my most Daily popular for many weeks. I haven't' had a look at it in months and didn't realize how popular is was. I had done that post only when I had first started my blog in January of 2013 of this year! The Keplie Post was on a Sunday afternoon on March 24, 2013 and I found these Magical creatures fascinating. 
So when I saw this article on the Sculptures of the Kelpies that were done in Scotland I just had to share. 

From the small article it says that the work is by Glasgow based and the Artist is Andy Scott who have been at it for seven years in the making.

The stunning Kelpies rise 100 feet from the ground to the tower over the new Helix Parkland, which will open next year.
It is said that the Kepie horses were modeled after Clydesdale's Duke's & Barn - to pay homage to the tradition of working horses of Scotland. These horses used to pull barges along Scotland canals and also worked in the fields in the areas where the Kelpies Sculptures now
Stand.
These Kelpies TWO of them are ENORMOUS! EACH WEIGHING

IN AT 300 TONS AND CONTAINS 9,842 FEET OF STEEL

TUBING AND 17,000 COMPONENT PARTS TO THE SCULPTURES. TO MAKE THEM 3D KELPIES.
The Artist of the Kelpies Sculptures put them in a place to honor their homeland. Where they will dramatically change the landscape around Falkirk.

These Kelpies and the new canal link to the Forth & Clyde canal are expected to open up the island waterways to more and bigger

vessels and it will lead to an increase in boating traffic throughout central Scotland. This is the hope for their country.
Quote from the Artist Andy Scott " I see the Kelpies as a personification of local and national equine history, of the lost industries of Scotland ," said Scott. 
"I also envisage them as a symbol of modern Scotland -proud and Majestic, of the people and the land. They are the culmination of cutting edge technology and hand crafted artisan ship created by our country.

Well I found this post fascinating myself! I surly hope that you my dear

readers do too! There is a Video to that I am going to try to put with this post but sometimes they just don't let me keep them on

here. So we will give it a goo try.. I hope you all like to the image that I found too. I have always loved the Cydesdale horses. They are the most beautiful horse in my opinion. Well Enjoy..Wendy.

VIOLET-CROWNED HUMMINGBIRD♥. ¸.✫¨´`'*°☆. (: ♥♥i`❥•♪♫¸¸.☆

Violet-crowned Hummingbird
These hummers origins name is the Amazilia Violiceps because they are an Spanish hummer. The Chupamirto Corona Azul -

Violet-crowned Hummingbird~
These Gems of the sky as I call them are from Western Mexico, with their summer homes being in a few places in the southeast of Arizona and the Southerner New Mexico too.
These hummers just recently arrived to the U.S. The Violet-crowned Hummingbird were virtually unknown to the north of Mexico border until the late 1950's and  even today they are quite scarce in many areas

to even localize. These beautiful Violet-crown's are frequent in area's of semiarid open woodlands. When they are seen, they are usually found in the U.S. near groves of very tall trees, especially

sycamores and the cottonwoods that are surrounded by a bushy understory. They feel more protected this way. During their breeding season these beautiful hummers will deliver a squeaky song that is often heard at dawn. This is when this type of hummer tries to attract the female Violet crown's with their musical squeaky song. Afterwards their favorite nesting sites are the deciduous trees,

especially sycamores or
the large shrubs even. These nest are placed in the open, but in shady spots between four and forty feet from the ground! Now that is Amazing! for a hummer. 

This is very different form your adverged hummingbird. Nest with a range from 4 to 40feet from the ground is HUGE!
But then again these hummers are one of the largest of the hummingbirds, not thee largerest but large!Its about four and half inches long [note the smallest of the hummingbirds on Earth is a mere 21/4 inches long ~ which is called -The Bee Hummingbird - The longest hummingbird on Earth is 8 1/2 inches long is the gaint hummingbird of the South American Andes] <note I will do a post on these two hummers at some point >
Both the Male and Female look very similar with bright white

underbellys and throats, bronzy green upper parts and green tails.

The Violet -Crowned hummers bills are bright red and the tip is black.
The crown of these hummers is an violet-blue, yet with the felmale it is just slightly a bit duller in color. 
When flower nector is not abundant or even available, the Violet-crowned hummingbirds cand be seen hovering vid level inthe shade of tall trees catching insects. The hummingbirds name violiceps is from the Greek meaning 'Violethead" a reference to the hummers Voilets -blue crown. 
This is another of my post that I am doing of my love of the 

Hummingbird...
I hope that you all Enjoyed this beautiful gem as much as I. Love you all! My dear Friends & Followers with love Yur Wendy! -ooo)