J. Scherft hummingbird

[birder]

Originally Posted by Kevin WS

We have 21 humming birds in South Africa, but they are relatively hard to find

The interesting thing is when they do turn up you usually see about 3 or 4 species at the same time!

Humming Birds are known as Sun Birds here.

Your Sunbirds are pretty as these hummers, we are getting cold here so won't be seing them for awhile, but I watch them on the Texas hummingbird cam on youtube...also watching the nesting Peregrine in Melbourne..live is amazing.

[birder]

With some thinking and puttering came up with this flower on my own, I flattened one of the Petunia's in our hanging pots on the scanner, and selected some parts for the leaves and drew up the parts in Photoshop, the flower is pretty simple but turned out nicer than I thought and took a picture of a few other flowers in the pot for a background.

[Michael Mash]

Well done Glen.
I think the photos of them around flowers are much more appealing than the ones around feeders. More often than not, they seem to favor red flowers.

[SteveB]

Hi Glen
that's a good point about the wings not being blurry, and that mount you've created looks excellent! I've made a couple of others - the Wren and the Firecrest. Both using thin card - I cut the tabs off so I could butt join them with underlapping pieces. Touched up with acrylic paints and added a drop of clear varnish on the eyes.

As for flowers, one advantage of being in the UK is that we don't have humming birds here, so I can plead relative ignorance about exactly which flowers they feed on :o) I planned to display all the birds in a small glass case with some of the very nice orchids Vermin King provided a link to a while ago: (https://northamericanorchidcenter.org/orchid-gami)

[birder]

Originally Posted by Michael Mash

Well done Glen.
I think the photos of them around flowers are much more appealing than the ones around feeders. More often than not, they seem to favor red flowers.

Thanks Mike I have a hard time getting pics without the feeder in it! Sometimes they fly up to you close to inspect if you have a red shirt on..

[birder]

Originally Posted by SteveB

Hi Glen
that's a good point about the wings not being blurry, and that mount you've created looks excellent! I've made a couple of others - the Wren and the Firecrest. Both using thin card - I cut the tabs off so I could butt join them with underlapping pieces. Touched up with acrylic paints and added a drop of clear varnish on the eyes.

As for flowers, one advantage of being in the UK is that we don't have humming birds here, so I can plead relative ignorance about exactly which flowers they feed on :o) I planned to display all the birds in a small glass case with some of the very nice orchids Vermin King provided a link to a while ago: (https://northamericanorchidcenter.org/orchid-gami)

I cheated as I've seen them in these very petunias, I have done the wren but am still thinking about it it turned out a bit narrow which I think is a mistake but still looks nice will post pretty soon if I can think of an interesting display. The wren is much more like our winter wren rather than our house wren...

[Kevin WS]

Glen - that flower is excellent! Well done for the creative streak there!

[birder]

Originally Posted by Kevin WS

Glen - that flower is excellent! Well done for the creative streak there!

Thanks Kevin, I really am impressed by how well designed these models are to look like the real bird, fun