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Default Protecting Hummingbird Chicks

On 6/23/2016 11:02 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:32:12 -0700, "David E. Ross"
> > wrote:
>
>> On 6/22/2016 9:09 PM, Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney wrote:
>>> "Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney" > wrote in message ...
>>> Got 2 of the little nuggets poking their heads out of a next. I notice a wandering housecat under the tree today. I'm trying to watch and keep running it off as much as I can.
>>>
>>> Question.... the nest is on a thin branch that won't hold the cat's weight and is out of it's reach. If they fly off, all is good. But I don't know anything about hummingbirds.... Anything I can do to keep the cat away in case the land on the ground? I thought about red pepper, but that might not be good for the birds.
>>>
>>> Any advice appreciated. Will upload a photo of the birds in the nest to tinypic later tonight.
>>>
>>> ----------
>>>
>>> Well, the cat worrying is over. Last night they were in the next as usual. This morning mama and the 2 chicks were no were to be seen. No feathers in the yard so that's a good sign.
>>>
>>>

>>
>> By the way, they were in a NEST, not a next. At first, I thought that
>> were merely a typo; but when you repeated it, I realized a correction
>> was needed.

>
> Truly the blind leading the blind! LOL
>

Yer momma gimme good head little feller.
LOL
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