Live Hummingbird Nest Cam – Oceanside, CA
Your watching a live broadcast of wild female hummingbirds nesting.
There are several Hummers that nest in this yard. Their nests are usually located bushes and no larger than the size of a golf ball. The nest is made from feathers, leaves and other parts of plant matter. She then wraps this material together with spider webs. The eggs she lays are about the size of a breath mint(tic-tac). Hummingbirds lay 1 or 2 eggs per clutch. You can expect to see them hatch after about 14-16 days from the date they are laid. The chicks will continue to grow in the nest for about three to four weeks before fledging. More information about the cams, set-up or to make a donation please visit alyssasnaturesanctuary.org.
Going to fix Casey’s supper back soon.
Okie dokie. Say hi to sweet Casey for me. ❤️
I’m baaaccckkk
Hey there. That was fairly quick.
I have to go back soon to get my supper, but that will be even quicker? I always do Casey’s supper, sit back down and take my omeprazole, give it some time, then get my supper.
You have a routine. Very nice. I keep trying to establish different routines, but they don’t last long. But I keep at it. 😅
I guess I do have a routine!
You taken Omep too! Me too, just one in the morning, 20mg.
Yep.
There you are. So quiet. Don’t see Ardy, Julie, Pam or Karen. I’m going to sign off. I’ve got to get out of this chair. I’ve been at my desk for hours. Going to stretch, make a salad and finish the leftover salmon and the call a good friend of mine. Will probably go to bed early. Hope you had a good day and a have a nice evening friend💛
Ardy has Rick’s sister in town, Karen has been here a good while, Julie went on a long walk early afternoon and ran errands. The called me about 4:30 when I was on the phone with Nancy. She had stopped at her bar on the way home. So now I’m wondering if she is home? Maybe came in and laid down to rest and fell asleep? I want to call her but I’m afraid of waking her.
I responded to a lot of your posts, at least liked them.
I think I did. Maybe just Karen? No you too.
Sorry Debbie. It is now the day after. I think what happens is that I sign off for the night so don’t see later posts until the next day. ThenI try to reply, like I’m doing now.
We are all in and out of chat so we aren’t always going to coincide. We both use our bell so we eventually get er done.
I know..lol. I’ve been going back and forth answering replies from yesterday and those today. Two left .and then i have got to charge me iPadn. It’s down to 5%. I’ve been on it a long time. Will motivate me to get in the kitchen and tidy up. Be back later🙂
Good evening Bellas. Seems like a quiet chat day today. Julie hope you got more of the sun today, Wonder if you and Jade got outside. Was almost 50 they say. Tomorrow it all goes away and we will be back to shivering in our boots! Glad Gabi is doing well today. i wanted to be outside but found myself at my desk most of the day. I’m thrilled to have gotten my garden and landscape projects for the upcoming growing season organized on paper. Hired the same landscape company who combined my perennial beds to help manage them. Where… Read more »
Hi Lin! 🤗 I’m getting excited just thinking about your landscaping and gardening projects. I used to do that stuff, back in the day. 😊 I practically lived outside. I bet you have a beautiful yard! Nice that you were able to get all kinds of things accomplished. A good feeling. 😘 I hope you have a great night too. Enjoy your supper. 🙂
Hi.There you are. So quiet here tonight. I just wish I didn’t have such back problems and could do more of the physical work. But I just can’t. I used to do it alot too. Then my knees got so bad (I have osteoarthritis quite bad in varying joints and spine) so they had to be replaced. Then the back got bad. Anyway, I’m glad I can afford to hire otherwise I couldn’t have the big garden. I’m so excited to see see if I get Monarchs this year.I bet you are too!
I’ve gotta dash as I told a dear friend of mine I’d call her in twenty minutes and I need to heat up supper quick first.
Have a good night Karrpen💛
I understand Lin. Enjoy your talk with your friend. I know how important that is. 🤗😘 Have a great night and have sweet dreams.
wow I sure did a typo miss on your name🥴 Sorry. My dear friend has a sheltie who is ten but runs around the dog park like a puppy. She learned that his heart condition is progressing and prognosis is that the dog only has about a year left.
A little less or little more. He will progressively go into congestive heart failure.
Here I am! 😊 Been floating around. I’m sorry to hear about the osteoarthritis that has caused you to not be able to do what you want to do, Lin. It is not nice. I have it in one hand and my back and shoulders. I have to have my shoulders replaced. It sure does change things. I didn’t know about your upcoming MRI. I have to ask, without seeming nosy, what is happening there? 🙏 I miss the gardening days, running my fingers through the dirt and planting. But, I can still enjoy the flowers and trees I have… Read more »
So they can replace shoulders with bone necropsy?
Evidently. The bone surgeon told me that it’s a quick and easy thing — they just go in there and take the dead stuff out and give you new bones AND cartilage.
Doesn’t sound easy to me. Artificial bones and cartilage?
Yep, both. I guess to an expert orthopedic surgeon who has done it a lot it would be somewhat easy. I have talked to other doctors who have had this surgeon do their surgeries.
Sounds like you would be in good hands.
Gee that would be great if that easy. I’ve heard but this is from other veterans who just go to the VA that shoulder surgery is not easy rehab. The VA doesn’t always keep up with the most modern techniques though so maybe the procedure and rehab is easy!🙂
Oh dear. I didn’t know your shoulders were so bad! 😞 So you know and understand how debilitating arthritis can become. My mother had it quite bad. Are you planning on getting the shoulders replaced or are you getting injections to keep them calm? Or maybe not at that point yet? I have OA everywhere, including shoulders but they aren’t too bad yet. I’m scared enough just thinking about having to have my old knee replacements replaced. Ugh! The MRI in a few weeks is to see my neck. Will also show the two most upper thoracic. I started having… Read more »
So you know and understand living with it. One day at a time and enjoying the days when it is tolerable. Half my freezer is ice packs…lol….I didn’t realize your shoulders were so bad. 🥲 Are they at the point where you have had steroid injectiosn?
Going to be more renovations but then it will finally be done!! My fence guy and I agreed to wait till this year to replace my fence. So all the perennials that I planted along my fence, the landscape company will relocate and plant away from where new fence will be. Now that the beds have been combined into one huge bed, I have lots more room so can keep plants away from fence. That way as the fence needs repairs (it is wood) no plants will be trampled and there will be enough room for him to walk through… Read more »
VA thing was like a tele appointment? Is the back problem up and down the whole spine?
They do offer Zoom calls. Is that tele? You know how little I know or use technology and paranoid about using it. So it is just a regular phone call appointment. I did try signing ip for something called My Healthy Vet where you can read and send communication with providers bit I hated it. For me it was too much of a hassle. You have to sign in and then I would get confused how to navigate the site. I just find the phone much easier. Yes, the degenerative joint disease from the osteoarthritis is in most of my… Read more »
Hi Lin I have online patient portals with my providers. That is how I found out the diagnosis the foot doctor told me about. Sometimes I read hospital or doctor reports online and understand much better than my interactions with the provider. Of course Mr. Google helps. I’m sorry about your arthritis, sounds bad to me. Worse than Rheumatoid because I have medicine to take. I have 3 joint replacements and pain here and there, but not like you, Ardy, Julie, Karen. I don’t know about Pam, she doesn’t tell us but I highly suspect. I’m glad you can hire… Read more »
I love your heart by the way! The pain you’ve had with your feet doesn’t sound easy. I am grateful that I can still get around, drive, do all my errands. i just can’t do all the bending and lifting required for gardening. I could do some but within minutes my back starts killing me so I only do what I can handle. I can use a little bench and do some pruning tasks and such. I am very lucky to have the same VA physical therapist I’ve had for about five years and she works well with me. She… Read more »
Does it help to wear a binder around your lower back?
Nope.
Good early evening everyone! 🥰 I have had a very non-productive day. Yay!!!! I was quite worn out after my adventures of yesterday. I slept in really late today, and then after a being up for a little bit, I went back to bed. I want to make sure I get plenty of rest so I don’t have a relapse. Doing good so far. I want to point out that today is one of the days where I have seen hardly any posts on the site. I’m wondering if there is a problem with the software and I’m not getting… Read more »
Hi Karen…I didn’t do much either…been reading a lot.
Hi, Lynn. Reading sounds enjoyable. I have to be careful reading if I have been on my phone for a long time, reading posts or doing research. My eyes start getting blurry and then I can’t read for a while, until my eyes go back to normal. I’m making an eye appointment, but I’m thinking my eyes are just getting old. Just another one of “those things.”. Gotta have something going on in order to feel normal. 😁😱 What kind of reading have you been doing? Mystery? Food? Romance novel? 🤔
I read different kinds of books…historical fiction (mostly during ww2), some romance novels, biographies, on and on..this one was actually a children’s book, probably older kids, fantasy novel…also I love animal stories.
When I was young I liked to read historical books about famous people, like Molly Pitcher, etc, set way back in history. They were written for my age group. I checked them out of the school library.
I have read different things depending on my age. When I was a young kid I read Nancy Drew and mysteries. Then as I got into my teenage years I started reading historical romantic fiction (smut novels 🤣). As an adult, I loved the Harry Potter books and I read all kinds of other stuff too. I think I read more fiction because I want to be entertained. If I want to know something about history, I just look on the internet. Lazy.
Hi Karen. I’m glad you got all rested up today. Sounds like you overdid yesterday! Maybe stretch the obligations out a little. Julie and Ardy have been gone/busy this afternoon. There has been very little chat here. I don’t know about other sites you may visit. I didn’t have anything really to post. I’ve cooked some chicken, biscuits for Jo, a sweet potato for me and Casey. Talked to Nancy, texted a friend, balanced a couple of checkbooks and stuff like that.
Oh yes, I would like to run errands like most people. I am doing good to get him moving this often. Left to his own, he would be a potato and nothing would get done. Anyway, done until next time. I’m glad I haven’t missed a bunch of posts due to software error. I know I’ve been having some missed posts recently. Large gaps with no comments. I’ve noted this before, recently. Others have commented here on missing posts also. I don’t really post enough on any other site to know what’s going on anywhere else. I’m glad this isn’t… Read more »
Sounds like the errands are for your husband. You want me to send a box of firecrackers for you to light under his butt? No, that would scare Dutchess, it isn’t her fault. How about an electric cattle prod. Maybe that would work. What are you having for supper?
😅😂 Although I laughed at the thought of firecrackers and had a few visions, the cattle prod sounds great. 😁 And I could use it all the time, not just when we have to run his errands. Back to reality — I am having a baked onion/garlic chicken breast with white rice and asparagus. Are you having a vegetable with your chicken and sweet potato?
Yum, sounds good. We are both having chicken. Yes I’m having Kale too. I always want one low cal veggie. Casey and I will eat on the sweet potato 2-3 nights, it is good sized. Even though they are really healthy, they still have more calories than a lot of veggies. So I eat a little of the high cal stuff, a lot of the low.
I love sweet potatoes. I don’t know why I don’t eat more of them.
Good for you and good to eat.
Good evening…really didn’t do much today…just one load of laundry, took care of my furkids and took both dogs for short walks..the rest of the day I mostly read and also fell asleep for awhile..I woke up too early his morning (for me) and so just got up then but got tired later, in the afternoon..another quiet day while Dh did his work stuff and cemetery stuff, which he’s still working on. Since I read a lot already today, maybe I’ll watch a show or movie…nothing too long. I’m waiting to see what “concoction” Dh is going to cook tonight,… Read more »
Hi Lynn doesn’t sound like a bad day for sure! I guess your husband likes to cook his concoctions so he can better eat his diet. They always sound good.
he’s been off his special diet somewhat but gradually getting back to it, I think..the other night it was like “maid rite”…loose hamburger meat with onion, pickles, think he cooked it in some beef broth, don’t know what else. Right now I’m just boiling a potato, exciting…if he runs out of time since he’s busy working on the computer, I still have some of he soup I made in the freezer.
I like little red, new, Yukon potatoes boiled.
me too
Hi Debbie. 🤗 I want to like those little potatoes. They look so tasty, but I just can’t taste them at all. And I find them a little tough. I get along better with a Russet potato that I can slice open and mash up, making it all creamy with margarine/butter. Of course I don’t get to eat them very often. Dang diet restrictions!
I’m not eating potatoes much until I’m on maintenance.
I never eat them much. I’d say maybe once a week, even on maintenance. I can still dream. 🥰
I like potatoes like that too.
Kind of nice waiting on a surprise for supper! Getting those taste buds ready for anything. 😅 I really like those days.
if it actually happens, lol…he’s still in his office working.
Aw . . . With all good intentions. ❤️
Eggs now.
They look ready to me! 😁
…again thanks for all your concern and care yesterday. Sweet girls you are ! ❤.
Me off to bed.😴.
Sweets for the sweet! Good nite Gabi.
Good night, Gabi 💕
Nite lynn.🥰
…Sugar for my honey…🎵🎶😘.
Now REALLY…..poof.
You are very welcome, www. I hope you were comforted, and I’m so glad everything went smoothly. Sleep good. 🤗
Oh yes, i was comforted so nicely by you all.
You sleep good, too, whenever your bedtime is. Probably late from what i see in chat, lol.👋🙂.
You are right. 😅 I usually get into bed late. But, I get to sleep in. 🤗💤
As long as you have enough hours to rest…its good.
I wish you good health and good circumstances in your life.
Its not always easy from what i sometimes read here. But the same here with me. No life without ups and downs. Take good care of you and be blessed, karen.😘
I finally got another very quick glimpse of the egg. Didn’t see a pip.
😘nite sweetie!
Hi Gabi! Are you all settled in, feeling relieved?
Yes and yes. Tired, too.
Spending a day stressed at a hospital is very tiring.
👋😴