Overfeeding....??
08-25-2010, 04:00 PM
#32
Power Poster
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Outside St. Louis
Posts: 38,190
Originally Posted by NCquilter
They are so cute! The ones we have do not get along with each other. They won't sit on the same feeder at the same time like that. They chase each other off and sit on the power lines to wait their turn.
08-25-2010, 04:09 PM
#33
Banned
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 2,047
Originally Posted by Jingleberry
Originally Posted by NCquilter
They are so cute! The ones we have do not get along with each other. They won't sit on the same feeder at the same time like that. They chase each other off and sit on the power lines to wait their turn.
We are currently going through about 2 qts daily!
I'm beginning to wonder if instead of being in the bird family that maybe they are more inclined to be in the swine family!
[miniature flying pigs!]
08-25-2010, 09:09 PM
#36
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Monroeville, PA
Posts: 547
I got to hold a humming bird a year ago. Our screen porch had the glass knocked out of the door when we were moving something.
All kinds of flying things would get stuck in the porch till we got the glass back in.
Most of the birds I could get them to fly out once I opened the door. But this little humming bird just would not Go! I left him for a few hours and he was just tuckering himself out so I had to go out and get him with a towel
Let me tell you those little wings flap FAST!
But I got him and he flew away!
All kinds of flying things would get stuck in the porch till we got the glass back in.
Most of the birds I could get them to fly out once I opened the door. But this little humming bird just would not Go! I left him for a few hours and he was just tuckering himself out so I had to go out and get him with a towel
Let me tell you those little wings flap FAST!
But I got him and he flew away!
08-26-2010, 05:25 AM
#39
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 587
Lady-T, I love hummingbirds. We have tiny yellow and black finches that eat off our sunflowers. I've wantd to take pictures of them, but you can't see them as they are camouflaged in the sunflowers. Our cat will sit under the sunflowers and try to catch the finches. The sunflowers are about 5 ft. tall. Thanks for sharing your pictures. Eiltcoq.
08-26-2010, 06:55 AM
#40
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: MA
Posts: 302
I understand that the male hummingbird will allow only his off-spring and members of his harem to feed from a feeder that he has claimed. Unless you have a lot of hummers, or a lot of feeders, this "guard bird" usually manages to scare off most others. I have tried to place feeders around the yard where he can't see them all from the same perch as this gives some others a chance to feed. We love watching them.
