I haven’t seen any hummingbirds for a couple of weeks now. I’ll leave the feeders up a while longer in case there are some stragglers, but I think that’s about it for the hummers this year. Take care little ones, I’ll see you in April. Don’t fall off the geese on your way south.
Haven’t attracted hummingbirds for years, but once the snow starts falling here in Michigan I start putting out seed and suet for the birds, and do it all winter until thaw.
It’s just a happy little thing to do first thing in the morning and I get to watch them from my office window over morning coffee.
Sorry, inner 10-year-old escaped for a minute there.
My hummers have been gone for a couple weeks now, I’ll put the feeder back up around Mother’s Day. I miss them when they’re gone. Cheap entertainment for the cat.
I grow (or rather, allow to grow) passion flower vine every year for the butterflies. I was out of town this year when the cattipilars hatched to eat the vine, spin their little pupae and spring forth into beautiful shining spinning flying stained glass.
Damn it, I missed the show I look forward to each year. Bud I did get to see .38 Special. It was worth it.
The vines will grow next year, little ones, your food source is assured. Sleep well this winter…
Hmmm, have to look. We still had hummers last weekend here in Seattle. Got the kiddos a hummingbird feeder and they have been diligently making sugar water and keeping it filled.
How do you get them to come to your neck of the woods? Our local birder advised us to put out red flowers and nectar but we’ve never had any luck attracting any hummingbirds. I’m in NJ. I’d love to see them again. They were delightfully everywhere when we went to Costa Rica for two weeks.
Just in the walk to and from my car at work I’ll see phoebes, juncos, seagulls, robins, crows, hummingbirds, mockingbirds, hawks and assorted Pacific Flyway birds from the wildlife refuge a couple of miles away. Sadly I don’t ever think I’ll see a burrowing owl out here again. They used to be fairly plentiful but their habitat got all eaten up.
You have to make some really tiny signs with the words Free Food written on them.
According to this map, hummingbirds should be in NJ.
I just make the standard 4:1 water:sugar ratio and put it in these feeders. They always seem to find it. There are cheaper feeders, but I would still stick to the same saucer type form factor for easy cleaning and refilling. And they don’t drip.
I use the small ones because my guests are very territorial. Try one or two saucer style feeders next year and I’ll bet you get some.
Well, at least my statement is accurate on many levels.
No one around here ever says “hummingbird”. I thought it was perhaps a joke about the desert and Hummers (vehicles).
Carry on.
I’m in Upstate NY and ours left on September 7. I put out a hanging basket of fuschia and a nectar feeder the first year and that combination seemed to work. Just try again next year. (I was shocked to actually see that first hummingbird, I was beginning to think they were mythical creatures like unicorns.)
I look forward to the winter birds: getting peanuts for bluejays and black oil sunflower seed for cardinals. I get flocks of both!