"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
Always wondered if feeding them that mix up junk is detrimental or making them dependant on humans. We are not supposed to feed most other wildlife species. I refuse to maintain any product for them.
Compared to the total population of ruby-throats I doubt if feeders have a significant effect, beside which there are likely many other bottlenecks regulating their numbers.
To the best of my knowledge some ruby-throats do cross the Gulf of Mexico but the majority skirt around it along the Texas and Mexican Gulf Coast during a hot and dry time of year. Ain't much growing out there at that season.
Certainly Hawk Watch International puts up about twenty hummingbird feeders in a row at their hawk watch platform outside of Corpus Christi from August 15th through October and in the second half of September they get swarmed.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
Me and my hummingbird pals will be placing you on ignore
Hummingbird pals?????
LOL!!!
This is the Grand Wizard, he lives in Brazil, and orders hits on those who denigrate hummingbirds......
He looks harmless, so does the bird, but its actually a Peruvian Death Hummingbird, the only venomous hummingbird in the world.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
I had a bunch, but the majority left the 1st day of September. Went from filling the feeders twice a day, to 3-4 days between fillings. Not empty then but I put fresh nectar in them anyway. miles
They're working these ornamentals right now. Just took this pic 5 mins ago. 3 flared off, one came right back (center of frame 2nd pic)
Fast forward to :50
BA- DOW!!!!
I freed one hung up in a garden spider's web once. It looked lifeless after I got it lose but stuck it's beak into nectar feeder anyway and eventually it started drinking little by little, came back from almost dead and just flew off like nothing ever happened.
I've read hummingbirds use spiderweb in building their nests so my guess is it either was trying to steal some web to build a nest, or feeding in my wife's flower garden beneath where the spider web was, and accidentally got hung in it.
I took my two feeders down last Sunday, supposedly so they will head south. I had one very irate hummingbird this morning!
As a side note, I was plagued with wasps and hornets all summer long on both of my feeders. They even tried to drive the hummingbirds away...
It ain't food shortage that drives them, its daylength and genetic programming.
If they waited for food supplies to run low they would never make it.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
no feeders this year, but plenty of flowers they like. They're still hitting the cypress vines that surround our garden pretty hard.
I have a red stuffed Chinese doodad hanging on the outside of the glass storm door to keep birds from running into it. They hit that thing once in while thinking it's lunch.
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