Not So Baby Humming Birds

On the way to San Francisco to enjoy a great weekend with Ann and Jack, MA and I stopped off in Thousand Oaks to spend a few days with Pat and Stan Nelson. The Nelson's have a shed attached to their garage to shelter clothes lines (for some of the younger readers of this blog, a clothes line is an archaic device which allows nature to dry clothes). A female humming bird had used a clothes line eye bolt as a mount for her nest. These two photos are of a pair of fairly mature fledglings that are just about ready to fly. Maybe they can fly and are just hanging around until Mom gets tired of feeding them.