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airmorse
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Happens every year this time. I'm filling up the feeder about every three days.
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hooky
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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
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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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Ausable
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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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mooseplums
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I live on South Central MN, and I still have a pair of hummers at my feeder
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JATFOMike
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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
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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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airmorse
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As of last night I still had a few around the feeder. I would guess that after this weekend they will have moved on from my area.
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hooky
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airmorse: "As of last night I still had a few around the feeder. I would guess that after this weekend they will have moved on from my area.
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We're a couple hours south of you and we've noticed it slow down over the course of the week. We'll probably pull ours sometime the week after next.
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