Posted on 05/15/2025 2:11:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
That’s interesting on the hummingbirds. Our last house was in the country & we had a well with a water softener that I used to mix hummingbird nectar. I had checked with our softener company to make sure it wouldn’t hurt them (it wouldn’t) and I had a couple hundred of them. I had taken a picture at a peak time at my feeder and sent to Iowa State extension office & they counted 50 hummers. Based on that, they estimated I had over 200 birds coming to the feeders. Was going through a gallon of nectar a day! Even had preying mantis hanging upside down on my feeders killing them but I fixed that!!
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