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Hummingbirds
wundudnee
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They go thru 2 cups of sugar in 1.5 days & are like if you slapped a wasp nest when you let one go dry.
Are your's demanding more?
Trying to remove the feeder that had some left
but when I tilted it to get the hook off
three landed and started guzzling with a large air battle in the background.
Some threw a leak as they flew close by me for protection.[xx(]
Thanks you beautiful little bastages....[B)]
The colors are off the hook.[:)]
The wife has saved three wrens in about 5 years time.
Every year the same lineage has babies in a birdhouse on the deck.
My face and body within one foot now while they feed the little ones.
Wife has a soft catch set up for flight training as in years past.
The squirrels would eat from your hand if you would let them.
In poor range condition they dont mind hamming it up when begging.
Rocksquirrels are back too.
gotta love spring
gotta love the country
Are your's demanding more?
Trying to remove the feeder that had some left
but when I tilted it to get the hook off
three landed and started guzzling with a large air battle in the background.
Some threw a leak as they flew close by me for protection.[xx(]
Thanks you beautiful little bastages....[B)]
The colors are off the hook.[:)]
The wife has saved three wrens in about 5 years time.
Every year the same lineage has babies in a birdhouse on the deck.
My face and body within one foot now while they feed the little ones.
Wife has a soft catch set up for flight training as in years past.
The squirrels would eat from your hand if you would let them.
In poor range condition they dont mind hamming it up when begging.
Rocksquirrels are back too.
gotta love spring
gotta love the country
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Had one just dive bomb me, then stop just a couple of feet in front of me to look me over. The Poof gone.
So I filled the cleaned and filled the feeder they like.
Then I walked to check the mail forgot to do it yesterday. Had one more this one was bigger and brighter. Followed me up the drive and then back.
Thought they should be gone by now. But we have not really had any frost yet.
Time for them to head south.
Brother in law has them throughout the winter at his place in AZ. Have seen them drinking water from his fountain and at his flowers.
I?m thinking that the hummingbirds May be onto something.
Though their Gulf of Mexico migration bothers me.
My resident families are gone. The males left with the August full moon, and the females went last week with the September one. I've tracked their departure dates for years and it always coincides with the full moon.
It's important to keep your feeders up until at least the first hard frost. You'll be providing vital energy to migrators, many of which starve on the way simply because flowers are wilting. That old myth about forcing them to go by removing feeders is criminal. It kills them.
I liked the video after that hummer pool. Egg to flight
Looks like the Hummingbird nest is in the persons house, Den or living room? A bird making a nest inside an occupied house, amazing.
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