Hummingbird 2021

[chadh2o]

I have two feeders hanging behind the house. I have seem one hummer and another bird, like a swallow but not, feeding on one feeder. The other feeder liquid goes down, but we never observe anything taking a drink.
My wife sees the hummers several times a day.

 

[Snattlerake]

That is good. I let mine go for about a week and then clean and replace the sugar / water mix. If I let it go much longer, I start getting a black mold or something growing in the feeder that seems to turn the birds off.

Thanks. That's what she says. We are just wasting sugar water, no hummers.

 

[RickN]

I think I saw our first one this evening. As I took the dogs out around 6 I saw a small bird zip off from the direction of our feeder to a tree. Bird was pretty tiny so I believe it was. The wife's pink flowers just bloomed the other day and the feeder is right above them.

 

[OKCHunter]

I have two feeders hanging behind the house. I have seem one hummer and another bird, like a swallow but not, feeding on one feeder. The other feeder liquid goes down, but we never observe anything taking a drink.
My wife sees the hummers several times a day.

I’ve got honey bees battling the hummingbirds for one of my feeders. I’m not interfering - I like both [emoji3].

It gets real interesting when the male hummingbirds start to claim a feeder. I watched 2 fighting for several weeks last year. It was most impressive when one was on his back, a foot off the ground all the way across the backyard, with the other one in his face. Here is a picture of those two.

 

[Hodrod]

Multiple at my home in Mustang....I sure do like to watch them chase each other...

 

[dlbleak]

Are you supposed to change out the water / sugar mix? Wifey leaves it up for a day or two then washes the whole thing and refills it with new.

We wash and clean every few days

 

[CHenry]

Are you supposed to change out the water / sugar mix? Wifey leaves it up for a day or two then washes the whole thing and refills it with new.

Mine gets wased and refilled when it goes almost empty

 

[CHenry]

We wash and clean every few days

Hmm, never knew you were supposed to do that. Thats a lot of sugar used in a summer.

 

[dlbleak]

Hmm, never knew you were supposed to do that. Thats a lot of sugar used in a summer.

We don’t completely fill though. Just enough to last a few days

 

[CHenry]

We don’t completely fill though. Just enough to last a few days

Ah, makes sense. I will start doing this too. I got some black mold looking stuff in mine. I cant reach inside to clean it so I think I'll soak it in bleach a minute.