Description
A female Anna’s Hummingbird, doing what female hummingbirds do best — disappearing in plain sight. No rose-pink crown, no flash: just soft green and gray that melts into the foliage. The drab dress is strategy. She builds the nest, sits the eggs, and raises the young entirely alone, and a mother who can’t be seen is a nest that can’t be found.
And she’s often not after nectar at all. Hummingbirds hunt insects and spiders for protein — especially the females when they’re breeding and feeding nestlings, whose growing bodies need far more than sugar. Watch a quiet female working the leaves and branches like this, and odds are she’s gleaning bugs, not blossoms. They’ll even raid spiderwebs — taking both the spider and the silk, which they use to bind their tiny stretchy nests together.
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