Amazing moment hundreds of hummingbirds descend on a bird 熱中している人's house desperate for a taste of her homemade nectar

  • The incredible （映画の）フィート数 was 逮捕（する）d in Corpus Christi in Texas
  • Christy McCloy said there was between 200 and 300 hummingbirds
  • The charm of hummingbirds were drinking the nectar she made?
  • She then made three extra gallons of nectar to keep the birds happy?

By Chantalle Edmunds For Mailonline

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A bird 熱中している人 from Texas was amazed to find around 200 hummingbirds 飛行機で行くing 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the 前線 of her house drinking the nectar she made.??

Christy McCloy, 52, from Corpus Christi in Texas, said she heard a 'general hubbub' coming outside, and decided to 検査／視察する the sound, taking her camera with her.

Retired teacher Christy photographed ruby-throated, buff-bellied, 黒人／ボイコット-chinned, and even rufous hummingbirds from 7am until 7pm on October 1.

She even had to make three extra gallons of nectar - made from water and sugar - to keep the charm of hummingbirds happy and fed.??

The amazing （映画の）フィート数 shows hundreds of the birds flocking around bird feeders filled with the nectar.

Some are 残り／休憩（する）ing on the feeders?while most frantically hover waiting for their turn to 料金d.

A couple of the birds wait perched on a 調印する featuring two cast アイロンをかける hummingbirds with the word 'Welcome.'

The incredible footage was captured in Corpus Christi in Texas by ret ired teacher Christy McCloy who said there was between 200 and 300 hummingbirds feeding on her homemade nectar

The incredible （映画の）フィート数 was 逮捕（する）d in Corpus Christi in Texas by retired teacher Christy McCloy who said there was between 200 and 300 hummingbirds feeding on her homemade nectar

Christy said her little home is visited every spring and autumn by hummingbirds migrating to and from Canada and Mexico.

However, she 追加するd she'd never seen so many hummingbirds all on her porch.

Christy said: 'I always get large numbers of hummingbirds during spring and 落ちる 移住, but [that morning] there were even greater numbers!

'So I stepped out 前線 to hear them better, and decided to 得る，とらえる my phone to ビデオ.

'That day turned out to be the 頂点（に達する） day for numbers at my house! I was lucky!

Hummingbirds, native to the Americas, are the smallest of birds, most species measuring just 7.5-13 cm in length.?They eat a variety of insects including mosquitoes and fruit flies, and drink nectar to supply their energy needs

Hummingbirds, native to the Americas, are the smallest of birds, most 種類 手段ing just 7.5-13 cm in length.?They eat a variety of insects 含むing mosquitoes and fruit 飛行機で行くs, and drink nectar to 供給（する） their energy needs

'I even had to make over three gallons of nectar to keep the feeders 十分な!

'A gentleman from a birding 場所／位置 in southern Texas 概算の there were at least 200, and かもしれない as many as 300 birds!

'The charm was 厚い like that for 12 hours, from 7 in the morning until sunset!'

Hummingbirds, native to the Americas, are the smallest of birds, most 種類 手段ing just 7.5-13 cm in length.

They eat a variety of insects 含むing mosquitoes and fruit 飛行機で行くs, and drink nectar to 供給（する） their energy needs.

'I even had to make over three gallons of nectar to keep the feeders full! Christy said

'I even had to make over three gallons of nectar to keep the feeders 十分な! Christy said

Most North American hummingbirds 飛行機で行く southwards in autumn to spend winter in Mexico, the C aribbean Islands, or Central America.

Christy said south Texas is 'very popular with birders because we get such a wide variety of birds, not just hummingbirds, during 移住'.

She said that she's even had 'large numbers of Orioles' 飛行機で行くing by too.

'Had I known about them in 前進する, I'd have 選ぶd up my good camera instead!' Christy 追加するd.

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