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re: Hummingbird Swarm
Posted on 9/18/16 at 8:04 pm to SportTiger1
Posted on 9/18/16 at 8:04 pm to SportTiger1
You need an ant guard. I made one out of 2 liter coke cap. They say to use water in the moat. I use cooking oil. The oil eventually dries out and is sticky as one of those mouse glue traps. Ants no more and don't have to add any oil.
Some feeders have a built in ant moat. Fill #4 in the pic with cooking oil and you will be good to go.
Some feeders have a built in ant moat. Fill #4 in the pic with cooking oil and you will be good to go.
This post was edited on 9/18/16 at 8:08 pm
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Posted on 9/18/16 at 8:25 pm to weadjust
last few years have been better and better for us. Have no way to count them but we have quite a few, of course my wife loves feeding them and I can't even tell you how many feeders we have at the moment!
Posted on 9/19/16 at 11:44 am to weadjust
Well thats a damn good idea.
Posted on 9/19/16 at 3:06 pm to weadjust
Perky Pet makes an ant guard that works well too and is pretty cheap at Amazon.
It has either insect killer or repellent inside that the ants would have to cross. They don't.
I've now got 8 hummingbirds on my feeder outside my office. Earlier in the year I would only have a few sightings a day but my house was new and they were learning where the feeders were. Hummingbirds do nest near feeders and the young often return to breed where they were born so over a few years the numbers can go up after you start feeding them. The birds now are mostly migrants from further north, though.
It has either insect killer or repellent inside that the ants would have to cross. They don't.
I've now got 8 hummingbirds on my feeder outside my office. Earlier in the year I would only have a few sightings a day but my house was new and they were learning where the feeders were. Hummingbirds do nest near feeders and the young often return to breed where they were born so over a few years the numbers can go up after you start feeding them. The birds now are mostly migrants from further north, though.
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