Hummingbirds have Returned East Coasters!

[Fudsey]

Hummingbird wars.... :cool::cool:

 

[aquaman67]

At the end of May I put out a small feeder.

I’d see a hummingbird or two now and then.

In June I started seeing more and more. The food that would normally last a week was gone in days.

So I got another feeder.

And another.

And another.

Now I’m making hummingbird food a gallon at a time. It will last 3 or 4 days.

I can’t count them for sure. But there has to be over a dozen at a time.

I’ve created a hummingbird monster.

 

[Erica-Renee]

We are now Seeing a few.. NO Ruby ones thou. It appears the weather has given them a abundance of Natural flowers in the fields behind where we live keeping them away form the feeders..

But we have 20-30 baby Cardinals on the bird feeders , and lots of other just hatched birds.. More so then ever before.
My thoughts anyway..

 

[redfishbluefish]

We are now Seeing a few.. NO Ruby ones thou. It appears the weather has given them a abundance of Natural flowers in the fields behind where we live keeping them away form the feeders..

But we have 20-30 baby Cardinals on the bird feeders , and lots of other just hatched birds.. More so then ever before.
My thoughts anyway..

East coast is exclusively Ruby Throated. If you don't see the actual ruby throat, you're seeing females or immature birds. Only the males (naturally the prettier of the sexes) has the ruby throat. :D:D

 

[Erica-Renee]

. Only the males (naturally the prettier of the sexes) has the ruby throat. :D:D

We will have to Agree to Disagree on this .But it does hold true to birds apparently

 

[redfishbluefish]

We will have to Agree to Disagree on this .But it does hold true to birds apparently

I must be a bird then! :eek: :rolleyes::rolleyes: :D :cool:

 

[Fudsey]

For those of you who don't know, don't use the premix stuff. There's no need to pay the exuberant prices for it. A 4:1 water to sugar is all you need to do. I bring the water to a boil then shut it off and mix in the sugar until dissolved and let cool. Boiling the water will help make it last longer in your fridge after mixing.

 

[Erica-Renee]

For those of you who don't know, don't use the premix stuff. There's no need to pay the exuberant prices for it. A 4:1 water to sugar is all you need to do. I bring the water to a boil then shut it off and mix in the sugar until dissolved and let cool. Boiling the water will help make it last longer in your fridge after mixing.

We make it with RO/DI Water and yes the stuff they sell is nothing more then water sugar food coloring .. (chemicals yes prob chemicals)

 

[sawdonkey]

My mom hand feeds these guys in AZ.

 

[sawdonkey]

Well, I guess a video is better.....

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Hummingbird wars.... :cool::cool:

Where did you get those hangers? I NEED those!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Well, I guess a video is better.....

That is awesome!

 

[4FordFamily]

Here in central Indiana we have almost exclusively ruby throated hummingbirds. The occasional Anna’s is reported here for some reason, they seem to be staying here more and more inexplicably. We even had one winter in Fort Wayne about ten years ago that made the news and was fed in a makeshift heated feeder and I hear this is happening more and more. I didn’t know that was a thing!

We have a TON of them at my new house we just built. I am not too surprised, as I have literally well over a hundred flowering trees, shrubs, and just flowers and two feeders out that have constant action, more than one at a time sometimes. I am big on landscaping and flowers.

I feed lots of birds here, I hope to see the pileated woodpeckers out here soon. The most interesting thing bird-wise we are experiencing here is a drastic reduction in American Robin over the past few years and a stark increase in population of their thrush cousins the Eastern Bluebirds.

My hypothesis is that the emerald ash borer beetle devastated the forests allowing for many tree hole breeding birds to proliferate more easily in the dead tree devastation. So many dead trees here it’s sad. I’m not sure why the demise of the American Robin— they’re still around but not like they used to be. I went the first 20 years of my life never seeing or hearing bluebirds to seeing then all the time. They eat my dried mealworms and even suet frequently!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Here in central Indiana we have almost exclusively ruby throated hummingbirds. The occasional Anna’s is reported here for some reason, they seem to be staying here more and more inexplicably. We even had one winter in Fort Wayne about ten years ago that made the news and was fed in a makeshift heated feeder and I hear this is happening more and more. I didn’t know that was a thing!

We have a TON of them at my new house we just built. I am not too surprised, as I have literally well over a hundred flowering trees, shrubs, and just flowers and two feeders out that have constant action, more than one at a time sometimes. I am big on landscaping and flowers.

I feed lots of birds here, I hope to see the pileated woodpeckers out here soon. The most interesting thing bird-wise we are experiencing here is a drastic reduction in American Robin over the past few years and a stark increase in population of their thrush cousins the Eastern Bluebirds.

My hypothesis is that the emerald ash borer beetle devastated the forests allowing for many tree hole breeding birds to proliferate. I’m not sure why the demise of the American Robin— they’re still around but not like they used to be. I went the first 20 years of my life never seeing or hearing bluebirds to seeing then all the time. They eat my dried mealworms and even suet frequently!

Here in South Carolina I love seeing the robins come, because that means spring is here and the end of that horrible thing called winter. That and we share a name.

 

[Fudsey]

Where did you get those hangers? I NEED those!

It was either Home Depot or Lowes I believe but I will check into it. :-)