My hummingbird feeder is getting popular. All day small and smaller birds stop to snack in a nearly endless stream. The way things are progressing the feeder will have to be refilled every two or three days. I won’t mind. They’re thirsty!
The feeder itself is suctioned to a window from the family room. That gives us a bird’s eye seat.
Hold it.
That’s wrong.
They’ve got the bird’s eye seat. Our view is still pretty good.
With my GoPro I was able to get an even better view! I suctioned it to the window right next to the feeder and waited.
It didn’t take long!
I’ve included a little realtime video followed by slo-mo at 10% of normal speed. Enjoy.
Thanks for sharing, Geoff. They’re such amazing little creatures, aren’t they? We have 2 feeders hanging right outside our bedroom window and it’s just so incredible to watch them. I’ve tried to film them, but mine turn out nothing like yours. 🙂
thanks again.
Elaine
Just started to attract the hummingbirds to our yard. They are so interesting to watch. Thanks for the video.
The head is rock solid – amazing!
We use a mixture of 3:1…..water to sugar. Our feeder will hold 1 1/2 cups water with 1/2 cup of sugar. While we had a couple of hummingbirds the first year it was nothing compared to what we get with this mixture. The change was simply that dramatic.
This evening there were 8 or more vying for a spot and our feeder has 6 feeding ports with perches.
We’ve filled it every day for the past 8 days and actually had to fill it twice yesterday.
They are amazing creatures to watch!
This video popped up on Andrew Sullivan’s blog site today:
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/08/09/mental-health-break-250/
KEWL Bird-NERD Video ! no – seriously ! L0L
Thanks Jim, for the above Video.
Geoff—I couldn’t get your video—maybe its the hour!
An FYI–you can get finger feeders that will slip on your finger like a ring and the hummers will come right to your hand. My sister bought one last yr. for a friend.
I will try the 3:1 mixture tomorrow as I put my feeders out a bit late this year, and while I have seen them at my neighbors Mimosa tree, I haven’t seen them at the feeder in my yard, yet.
They say that you should empty the feeders and clean them throughly every 3-5 days, especially in the heat we have been having this summer. Even when you are just refilling, they say to clean in between. I have always been leary of window feeders, lest the birds crash into the window. I had a raptor do that one day and it was instantly killed. Now I have a sillouette of a bird/hawk on that window, so they don’t see the reflection of sky and fly into it.
Happy bird watching—
That is so cool ! I have tried in central CT to get them, no luck……cats and a dog probably don’t help…… I have had luck at my place in VT……..whole different world up there…. Have you seen different varieties> I know in VT I was surprised to see some that were quite colorful…..do some research see what species are native to SoCal. Enjoy, they are awesome !
I hung a feeder up when a humming bird startled me by hitting my porch window [ not as big as a florida mosquito tho…]then erected a BAT-House 15 ft up on a fence pole for these pesky little skeeters down here in West-Floida
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Amazing video, Geoff. My mother-in-law had one of those hung out in a tree last year. It was fascinating to see the hummingbirds zip to it, around it, take their sips/gulps, then….GONE…
Thank you for sharing!
My cats certainly enjoyed that. There’s usually two of them on the desk ‘helping’ me type at night.
I like birds but we’re not allowed to feed them here.