Caleb pours newly made nectar into feeder using a beaker
Voila!This year, their Hypothesis is that the Hummingbirds (in Ladera Ranch) prefer Violet nectars over other colored nectars like Red or Green Nectar. We hung the 3 Nectar bottles in Andrei's yard for 7 days, and he and his mom took some really spectacular pictures!
The hummers like red nectars!
It turns out they LOVE green nectars most!
According to Andrei, the hummers (as we affectionately call them) prefer the green nectars over the other 2 nectars! After the week was up, we transferred the 3 nectar bottles to our house (just 3 streets down) and hung them in our front yard for 7 more days. Today is the final day! I tried for 7 days to take pictures of these speedy birds and had no luck. Good thing TODAY I was able to catch ONE picture and ONE video of an angry Hummingbird.... who could NOT find his Nectars!
Apparently, someone had removed his favorite food and he wasn't happy. But I had to take it down in order to measure the final nectar consumed in each bottle! So, to test your eyesight, see if you can find him in the picture above! [Hint: His beak is facing right]
Beginning amount: 200 mL each 
Ending amount: 20ml of nectar left in green feeder! 40ml left in red, and 120 ml left in Violet!
~ ~ ~ May 26, 2010 ~ ~ ~ The Big Day!!
We just returned from our Chaparral Science Fair! We were surprised that Caleb and Andrei's project had won a Blue Ribbon! We were there when school let out today and we didn't see a ribbon on their display! Woo hoo! Go Boys! Great teamwork! We enjoyed the yummy root beer ice cream float in the lunch area, and went to Mr. Trager's room to do "bird beak adaptation project", then went to Abbie's future kindergarten playground to visit Mrs. McLaren and play with "liquid goo". She wanted to be done after just 30 seconds! (^_^)
Caleb and Andrei's Hummingbird display
Mr. T helps with "bird beak and food" project
Caleb patiently works on project
Abbie was not too thrilled with "goo" liquid
1 comment:
You are such a master at this. I can't believe there is so much nectar missing from the green! At our house they preferred that too, but not to that extent! Nice job Sophie!
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