Posted on 05/31/2016 12:38:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
We have hummingbirds around here... they are incredibly cool to watch in action.
And use SPRING WATER or purified water NOT TAP WATER!!
Hummingbirds are beautiful in everything they do. Another reason I believe in a Creator.
They have good memories also.
Every spring around mid-April I will see them just hovering, staring at the hooks I hang my feeders from.
My college grad CPA is bugophobic. The sight of a wasp or other bugs causes her to freak out to the point of almost hurting herself to get away. Last spring she came running in the house screaming, “ OMG, there is a HUGE wasp on the front porch”. So I went to investigate. It was a hummingbird buzzing her for getting too close to the feeder!!!
College kids, oh brother....
I’m watching 4 fight over my feeder right now. It seems like the females outnumber the male’s about 5 to 1.
I’m on the west side in the Cascade foothills in Washington St. close to I 90. The’re like little jet fighters that can stop on a dime and even fly backwards on the same dime.
I love hearing them fuss with each other over the feeders.
The perfection and beauty of hummingbirds seems almost of another world.
Beautiful birds. Very curious (they actually seem “friendly” and territorial.
Because of fluoride or minerals? I have a private well here.
No flouride but, it’s probably pretty hard water.
We only saw our first hummer this past Saturday (we’re in the suburbs just NE of Washington, DC); our feeders have been up for a month, and we usually see them much sooner. I was getting worried - but they’re back!
-JT
I am going to fill a feeder with RED BULL and watch as they disappear from going so fast they travel backwards or forwards through time. /s
My husband is a hummingbird freak also. I do mix a bit more sugar than called for, probably 2 1/2 cups to 7 cups of water and one cup of ice to cool it down.
I have a well, is that water okay?
I have orioles at the feeders all spring and most of the summer and house finches as long as the feeders are out.
The hummingbirds have been coming in since the first of May, one or two at a time. They come in skinny, stay a day or two until they are fat and are off again.
I think they are black chinned hummers, they look black/dark at the feeder although one came through with a red head.
We have a tiny hummingbird nest in the bougevvilla in our patio. The mother is working on her second set of babies now.
The key to hummingbird food is making sure the sugar and water are mixed REALLY well. I probably stir my recipe up to 300 times. No joke.
The idea that these tiny birds can fly over 1000 km (600+ miles) without feeding just amazes me.
I’ve got two hummer nests in my backyard right now. Two newly hatched chicks in one, the other is already done for this season.
rlmorel said that hummers are ‘friendly but territorial’. ‘Fearless and extremely territorial’ is more my experience. They have the personality of an angry chihuahua crossed with a pitbull if they are annoyed with your presence in their territory. Hummingbirds are the only bird that I know what can cuss, other than parrots.
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