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Hummingbirds are going crazy at the feeder.

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airmorse

09/05/2018 06:24PM

Happens every year this time. I'm filling up the feeder about every three days.

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Ausable

09/08/2018 11:17AM

Nice! I love seeing hummingbirds. We have single visitors at our butterfly bush, honeysuckle, etc. We haven't put out a feeder in a few years because we didn't get many birds.

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JATFOMike

09/09/2018 05:33AM

I haven't seen a male hummer at our feeders in about two weeks.....the females that are still here are going crazy though.

Mike

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airmorse

09/09/2018 07:37AM

What do you feed them, commercial brand, or do you make your own food.

I make my own food for the hummingbirds.

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hooky

09/26/2018 04:09PM

Ausable: "Nice! I love seeing hummingbirds. We have single visitors at our butterfly bush, honeysuckle, etc. We haven't put out a feeder in a few years because we didn't get many birds."

Put out a feeder early in the year. It makes a difference in the number that you see. That's been our experience, anyway.

We make our own with table sugar. water:sugar 3:1 early and late in the season. 4:1 in the summer.

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JATFOMike

09/26/2018 05:39PM

airmorse: "What do you feed them, commercial brand, or do you make your own food.

I make my own food for the hummingbirds."

I make my own 4:1 water-sugar.....I put the feeders out 2nd week of April, they usually show up 3-4th week of April and are gone by mid-September though last year I had a straggler that hung on till October 1st..

Mike

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airmorse