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I found a fun website, Hummingbird World, that you may enjoy. They also include instructions for making your own hummingbird nectar. I also found a post on the Garden forum that discusses adding orange extract to your hummingbird nectar.
I have added a second hummingbird feeder to my yard because I have one territorial little guy that is chasing off all the other hummers. What enjoyment!
Finally, when do the hummingbirds in this area begin migrating for the winter?
I find that my hummingbirds disappear around Oct. I always get them April 1st and they seem to leave Oct. 1st. I have 2 feeders up myself and they look like swarms of bees.. I have many of them and there is one bully that monopolizes the one feeder.
I find that my hummingbirds disappear around Oct. I always get them April 1st and they seem to leave Oct. 1st. I have 2 feeders up myself and they look like swarms of bees.. I have many of them and there is one bully that monopolizes the one feeder.
Wow, that is a long hummingbird season! Thanks for the info; I will need to be prepared for the hummers come April!
We havent seen as many this year. Anyone else experiencing that?
I think I need to buy a second feeder too since I have a bully also. what a good idea!
I just hung a third nectar feeder. This is my third season attracting hummingbirds, and I'm already getting a lot of steady visits. This is much earlier than last year, and business should pick up even more soon
It's crazy. Four years ago we had an addition put on perpendicular to the kitchen/nook window, where there was once a hummingbird feeder. The feeder sat there for a full year just attracting ants to the second story, no hummingbirds. So, I removed it.
This summer we are getting hummingbirds hovering at that window, right where the feeder was 3 years ago. They hover and probe the area by that window and then zip away. They have to actually fly around the addition that once was not there. Since hummingbirds migrate, I am totally curious if the same ones return to the same spot and actually have a memory of where they once fed. It's kinda priceless.
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