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Humming bird feeders
Posted on 11/30/14 at 10:36 am
Posted on 11/30/14 at 10:36 am
Should my feeders be out? Will I get any this time a year?
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Posted on 11/30/14 at 10:38 am to Ellakennedi
too late
Posted on 11/30/14 at 10:42 am to Ellakennedi
They quit showing up to the feeders about 3-4 weeks ago here in west central Louisiana. You may have a few stragglers that cant make the trip and they will feed as long as you leave food out for them.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 10:57 am to Ellakennedi
I didn't get many this year. I went and bought a new feeder for this year too. :(
Posted on 11/30/14 at 11:11 am to Ellakennedi
Yes, you should leave it out. There are not nearly as many hummingbirds in the winter but some can show up and are species that are rare in the summer. The gulf coast is one of the best places in the US for this and Baton Rouge has become a bit of a winter hummingbird magnet. You may or may not get any but it's worth a try.
Article about this in the Advocate
Article about this in the Advocate
Posted on 11/30/14 at 11:15 am to Ellakennedi
They need to be going south - across the Gulf of Mexico now. To their winter home. Actually they should have gone a few weeks back. If you put food out, they will stay around for the easy eats and then freeze to death when cold weather comes. The best thing is to stop feeding them and force them to leave.
They will be back as soon as the weather begins to warm up in the spring.
They will be back as soon as the weather begins to warm up in the spring.
This post was edited on 11/30/14 at 11:17 am
Posted on 11/30/14 at 11:24 am to MeridianDog
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If you put food out, they will stay around for the easy eats and then freeze to death when cold weather comes. The best thing is to stop feeding them and force them to leave.
Commonly believed myth that is not true at all. Baton Rouge alone has dozens of hummingbirds that spend the entire winter and do just fine.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 11:49 am to Ellakennedi
You will KILL THEM !!!
Take em down !!
Take em down !!
Posted on 11/30/14 at 11:56 am to Tigris
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quote: If you put food out, they will stay around for the easy eats and then freeze to death when cold weather comes. The best thing is to stop feeding them and force them to leave.
Commonly believed myth that is not true at all. Baton Rouge alone has dozens of hummingbirds that spend the entire winter and do just fine.
How cold does it have to be for this to be true? I've been thinking of getting one or two feeders for my backyard. I live north of Atlanta...I'm guessing it would get cold enough to kill them here?
Posted on 11/30/14 at 12:12 pm to ZereauxSum
Just wait until spring to put them out.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 12:22 pm to Ellakennedi
All of my hummingbirds left a few weeks back...took my feeder in last weekend to keep it from freezing....
Posted on 11/30/14 at 1:32 pm to livewire
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You will KILL THEM !!!
Take em down !!
Again, that is pure ignorance but a lot of people believe it. Having feeders out helps the ones that are here in the winter. The summer birds are Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Winter birds are a mix of other species (usually Rufous, Black-chinned, Buff-bellied, Broad-tailed. A few years ago a Green-breasted Mango showed up in Dublin, Georgia from Costa Rica and survived the winter because it had food.
To the poster from north of Atlanta - you can try but your odds are pretty slim of getting a winter hummingbird. Still, there are a couple of dozen records of wintertime hummingbirds in north GA in the last 2 years. People closer to the coast like Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, etc. have a much better chance. Hummingbirds can survive very cold temperatures if they have a food source which is the reason to leave a feeder out if you think there is much of a chance. I always do and have never had one in the winter. In the summer we have dozens and a few years ago I had this view outside my office window:
Posted on 11/30/14 at 2:25 pm to Ellakennedi
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Humming bird feeders
Is this a bird feeder that hums?What tune?
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