A new hummingbird appeared and began adding a second storey to the old existing nest

Can you believe it?  A week ago, we were surprised to see that our old hummingbird nest in the cactus beside the walkway to our house, had grown taller. It wasn’t a few minutes later, that I heard her! A new hummingbird mama had seen the nest and decided to re-use and re-cycle the old nest. She was busily adding a second storey to the old nest to build it up a little more.

Here's the nest showing the new portion between the two stars.

The nest is totally about 1 3/4 inches and the addition is almost a half inch. Still pretty tiny all things considered. Mama has laid her second egg (yesterday) and is now sitting on the nest leaving periodically to feed.

Here's the nest from the back side showing all the fine strands of cobwebs used as "glue" to secure the nest.

I wanted to show you the new materials and fluff that has gone into recycling the top of the old nest.

A backside view of the Bahama Woodstar hummingbird sitting on a nest with two little eggs

Nesting hummingbird ... how sweet she is!

So here I go again!  I’ll keep taking more photos………….I can’t tell you how many I already have but there’s tons!!

Marta

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