Bears and raccoons love sugar water. Coons usually unhook the feeder and drop them when empty breaking the jar or base. I live trapped 4 so far this year and have a good place by the Kings river not near any houses to release them.
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They are still here today at 8650 feet in extreme north Colorado. Took this broad tails picture just now on the cabin porch.
IMG_0666 by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr
IMG_0666 by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr
Still feeding several here in East Central Mo.They are still here today at 8650 feet in extreme north Colorado. Took this broad tails picture just now on the cabin porch.
Phil Coffins
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I had ants getting into the feeder so I lightly coated the wire that it hangs from with heavy oil, that stopped them!
We have nectar feeding bats coming every night to use the hummer feeder until about mid October. returning again in May. They are rather sloppy feeders and spill a lot, draining it most nights that I leave it out.
Maybe some wasted research funds could be better spent researching Hummingbird hearts and brains.
When I lived in Ohio, the hummers built a nest on the same limb of a poplar tree about 40 feet from the porch for 5-6 years in a row. I can't say it was the same pair every year, but like like to think so. Or maybe their young'uns. Lots of trips from the porch feeders back and forth to the nest.
Why didn't I think of that? An easy fix for a vexing problem!!!!! ... I'll try it next year, as the ruby-throated hummingbirds have now gone from our home in New Hampshire. We're currently in Utah and the last of the black-chinned hummingbirds apparently left yesterday as the feeder is now untouched
North Houston Update, Sept 1-7:
Location: Hanging Feeder outside Kitchen window:
1 Male Ruby Throated and 1 Female, subdued colorings.
Daily visits to Feeder.
Location: Hanging Feeder outside Kitchen window:
1 Male Ruby Throated and 1 Female, subdued colorings.
Daily visits to Feeder.
Beautiful !
Yah, I think ours will be gone within the next week or two.. I'm in S.E. Wisconsin, and they are still showing up at our feeders. SIGH!!!!!!
Dave
Dave
North Houston Update, Sept 21-27.
Weather: Upper 90s early in week, then Upper 80s and Lower 90s later in the week.
Location: Hanging Feeder outside Kitchen window:
1 Male Ruby Throated and 1 Female, subdued colorings.
Male acts aggressively, chasing Female away from feeder.
I have seen a lone Female at the Feeder, but I don't know if it's from the pair, or is a 2nd Female that's alone.
Daily visits to Feeder.
Weather: Upper 90s early in week, then Upper 80s and Lower 90s later in the week.
Location: Hanging Feeder outside Kitchen window:
1 Male Ruby Throated and 1 Female, subdued colorings.
Male acts aggressively, chasing Female away from feeder.
I have seen a lone Female at the Feeder, but I don't know if it's from the pair, or is a 2nd Female that's alone.
Daily visits to Feeder.
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The Hummimg birds in my area like to nest over water. My friend has a log cabin on Falling Creek, a small creek abut 20 yards across. The birds nest up and down the creek. He feeds them the red stuff and they eat it up! I have seen 10 or more birds all around his head as he replaces the fluid for them. Amazing!
103 degrees right now, 5 or 6 hummers fighting over the feeder, will probably be 8 to 10 at dusk getting last rations for the day... they seem to be ,ore tolerant of each other at that time.
What exactly does Red Dye do to hummers? I give them clear sugar water but sometimes put just enough dye in the mix to turn it pink. That way I can see out the window how full or empty the feeder is.
LME
Where are you at,??.
Dave
Where are you at,??.
Dave
I still have a couple Hummers at my feeders here in S E Wisconsin. I think they will be gone in a day or two.
Dave
Dave
Here in the ozarks we only have a few left. I imagine they will be south in a few days
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