What if it rains really hard and there is a hummingbird nest in my back yard?

Question

Should I make a shelter over it so its not wet, or the hummngbird doesnt get wet?

Answer 1

The female will usually sit on the nest while it rains to protect it. A hard, heavy rain can cause the nest to fail, as the female has to get off of the nest sometimes to feed, and the rain can cause the egg to become too cold or the nest to become too wet. Just let her be....trying to approach the nest at all could keep her off it and cause it to fail or she might abandon if there is too much disturbance. Just let nature take it's course.

Answer 2

Please...I hope that you have not taken the advice of many of the people who posted here already and taken them from the nest. The mother's instinct told her that where she nested the babies is safe. I know that you are concerned, but do not fret. The soil will absorb the water. This happens all the time. If it would make you feel better to remove some of the water, than do so...but be warned that you are disrupting the nest and the babies. You are likely to never see the mother. She comes early morning and late at night, and for only a few minutes at a time, to prevent predators from noticing the babies. Having you being near the nest constantly is making her stay away as well, because you are a predator in her eyes, not someone that is trying to help.

Answer 3

Don't worry about it. Building a shelter over the nest might scare the hummingbird away. They know instinctively where and how to build their nests.
Did you know, hummingbirds go into a torpor at night? They can't afford to keep up their fast metabolism at night, so they get kind of cold.
I found one once that had fallen into my birdbath and was floating in the water the next morning. I picked it up, dried it with a hair dryer, and soon it woke up and was buzzing around the room. So I let it back outside.

Answer 4

Hummingbird Nest!? How cool! I wouldn't worry about the rain unless the nest gets washed away, or the mom has flown the coop so to speak.

Answer 5

Hummingbirds have been getting wet for eons and the nest will survive if Mother Nature deems it. I you cover the nest area this may only drive them away and if there are eggs in the nest that they leave..well you get the idea.

Answer 6

Hummingbirds are a LOT tougher than they look. They'll be fine.

Answer 7

It's damned wild animal, they've been around a lot longer then we have without some do-gooder building them a bird house..

Answer 8

please leave them alone a wild animal will flee a disturbed nest, it is was a tamer bird i would personally just put an umbrella over them although i really dont think you should do this unless there is like a flood lol

Answer 9

my aunt had a nest like that in her garden tree, and she made a shelter using plastic and wood, it was pretty improvised but it worked.

Answer 10

The nest should be able to withstand mother nature. Leave it alone.