The Black-chinned Hummer 
Woozz, woozz, woozz, woozz, he says,—or possibly wings —with a frenzied 
half-circle for each beat. The sound is one of the commonest of the 
merry Maytime, albeit the lovers take some pains not to be caught 
spooning. 
The Black-chin becomes 
its almost exclusive use of 
the tawny yellowish down 
of young sycamore leaves for 
nest material. This elastic 
substance is felted together 
and tempered with spiders’ 
webs, and bound over all 
to the slenderest support of 
sycamore twig, willow, or 
Taken in the Ojai Photo by Dickey 
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known as the “Sponge Hummer” through 
Taken in the Ojai Photo by Dickey 
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what not. The resulting nest, both 
for simplicity of material and perfection 
of design, is quite the most exquisite 
in North American hummerdom. The 
upper margin of the Black-chin’s nest 
toes in, so as to form a cup some two- 
thirds or three-fourths enclosed; and 
this tidy receptacle will stand a good 
deal of bandying by the wind without 
