PBS Sunday Night at 8 pm

The program "Nature" is having an hour long special on Hummingbirds! "Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air." It looks amazing! We just set a reminder to tune in. I love hummingbirds and hope to add more of them to our life list. Unfortunately watching them on tv doesn't count.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/ (the site says it airs Sunday, Jan 6th, but that must be a typo. It airs Sunday, January 10th).


Update: We watched the special last night and overall we thought it was well done and interesting. HOWEVER we did not like the segments showing captive hummingbirds used in research. This (albeit short) segment of the program was upsetting to us. I am sure the unnatural setting is stressful to the bird, not to mention the set-up the "scientists" had set up to see what lengths and speeds the hummingbird would go to in order to eat. Keeping a hungry bird and then making it jump through hoops that it would not have to do in it's natural setting is cruel. That aside, the shots of the birds in the wild with the slow capture cameras was impressive. Seeing all the beautiful varieties of hummingbirds was impressive as well.