Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) Brooding Her Eggs

One morning I happened to see a hummingbird flitting about the spindly branches of the only tree out front of my building. Then suddenly it wasn't there, so I came in for a closer look and discovered her nest -- the size of a golf ball, woven of moss and feathers and spider webs -- just out of reach on in a fork of one of the lowest branches. I get a pretty good view from my fire escape and I can zoom in enough to see that there are now two tiny eggs...probably the size of black beans...inside. Hopefully in future I'll be able to observe the growth of the nestlings that way too. As I was capturing the video, a wind came up and the precariousness of her tiny nest became very obvious. Maybe that's why hummingbird nests are so padded with fluffy stuff, because the eggs can't afford to knock into anything of any substance with the wind blows their rocking cradle. I believe this is an Annas Hummingbird (Calypte anna) and I'm pretty sure that only the females brood the eggs and feed the young, but I am by no means any sort of expert on the species or the sort...I can't even determine whether Anna has an apostrophe on it, but somehow that seems wrong (apparently the species was named for Anna Massena, Duchess of Rivoli by René Primevère Lesson the 19th Century birder who named it -- so the apostrophe is appropriate). Another curious fact is that earlier in time, Anna's hummingbirds were limited to Baja and Mexico, but because of the influx of ornamental flowers brought in by California settlers, they have expanded their range considerably. And it is true that only the females brood the young.

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