Hummingbirds.......are they visiting this year?
#1
My neighbor and I were talking last night. I mentioned I hadn't seen ONE hummingbird this year. She said she usually has a lot of them but she hadn't either, and neither has her friend. So what's up????????? Hopefully, they've just moved to a new neighborhood???!!! :idea: :(
#4
I put out the feeder about 3 weeks ago and they are definitely coming, though I haven't seen as many this year as usual yet.
I'm having a problem with ants. I put some Vaseline on the metal pole the feeder is on and watched an ant cross right over it. My DH says I should have put it on a long stretch of the pole rather than gobbing it in one place. I've never done it before, so I didn't know quite how it was supposed to be done.
I'm having a problem with ants. I put some Vaseline on the metal pole the feeder is on and watched an ant cross right over it. My DH says I should have put it on a long stretch of the pole rather than gobbing it in one place. I've never done it before, so I didn't know quite how it was supposed to be done.
#6
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: central Indiana
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I have a hummingbird...perhaps more than one, but I only see one at the feeder at a time.
Kind of a funny thing happened yesterday....my husband was in a barn at his dad's house doing some work on a tractor/baler we haven't needed to have out yet this summer and he said he kept hearing a loud but low-sounding buzz. He thought maybe it was a big fly or a bee....next thing he knew, he had a hummingbird flying around him! I told him he should have grabbed it and brought it home to our feeder. Strange...he said that barn probably hasn't even been open this spring until yesterday.
Kind of a funny thing happened yesterday....my husband was in a barn at his dad's house doing some work on a tractor/baler we haven't needed to have out yet this summer and he said he kept hearing a loud but low-sounding buzz. He thought maybe it was a big fly or a bee....next thing he knew, he had a hummingbird flying around him! I told him he should have grabbed it and brought it home to our feeder. Strange...he said that barn probably hasn't even been open this spring until yesterday.
#8
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Central Indiana (USA)
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I saw my first hummingbird about 4 weeks ago, I was looking out my living room window and it was flying around my windchime. I need to get a hummingbird feeder. I had a hummingbird feeder last year but bees got inside of it and was swarmed by other bees, had to throw it away.
I wonder what I can do so bees don't get inside of it? It is hanging on our front porch and couldn't sit out because of bees.
Craftybear
I wonder what I can do so bees don't get inside of it? It is hanging on our front porch and couldn't sit out because of bees.
Craftybear
#9
Craftybear.....I found this article...scroll down to the part about bees....says to take the YELLOW parts off the feeder because it attracts the bees! http://www.hummingbirds.net/feeders.html
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