Baby Hummingbirds in Nest 1

I'm sharing these three photos of two baby hummingbirds in a nest at my neighbor's house so you can see the birds, and especially the nest, from different angles. It's fascinating to me how the nest is made with a spider's web as its base along with cat hair, lint, and any other light material the hummingbird can find to put together a nest. This whole nest was on a string of bells (you can just make out one of the bells this nest is attached to), and the nest itself was only about 2 1/2 inches in diameter. The baby hummingbirds, at this point, were probably almost fledglings, as they'd already hatched a couple of weeks before I took these photos.

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