Allen’s Hummingbird – Art Print on Wood

This listing is for a limited edition, fine art print of my original painting of an Allen’s Hummingbird called “You Don’t Say?”

This Allen’s Hummingbird is 2 parts quizzical, 1 part snarky. Being a very tiny bird, one must walk a fine line. The print is mounted on wood and ready to hang. 

About the bird:

From our friends at Audubon:

“A close relative of the Rufous Hummingbird, Allen’s has a more limited range, nesting mostly in California. This is one of the two common nesting hummingbirds in northern California gardens (Anna’s is the other). Females and immatures of Allen’s Hummingbird are almost impossible to separate from Rufous females without close examination, so the status of the species in migration is still being worked out by dedicated hummingbird banders.

“Male’s courtship display is in J-shaped pattern: flying high, diving steeply with metallic whine at bottom of dive, then curving up to hover at moderate height; often preceded by a back-and-forth pendulum flight in front of the female. Nest site is in a tree or shrub, rarely on a weed stalk, usually low (but rarely up to 90 feet above the ground) on a horizontal or diagonal branch. Nest (built by female alone) is a neatly constructed cup of green mosses and plant fibers, held together with spider webs, lined with plant down. The outside is camouflaged with bits of lichen.”

I recently found a hummingbird nest in the grass next to a few hawk feathers. Initially, I thought the hawk had gotten the poor hummingbirds, but I read that hummingbirds nest near hawks, as hawks don’t consider the tiny birds good food, and thus act as body guards of sorts.