re: Hummingbird migration

I’ve got three feeders out…and three sentinels that hang out within a few feet to bully everyone else. One little shitass even took a run at me LOL

I knew the males could be assholes but I must have work release inmates

About 20 little acrobats humming around. Looks like they take breaks and leave but come right back within an hour or so. No bees but crazy thing is I have a big lizard that shows up every day and hangs out on the same feeder.

A friend told me to put some Dawn between the feeding hole areas. The birds won't touch it, but the bees hate it.

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I've got honey bees hitting up one of my feeders...the hummers still use it but I don't see anyway to keep the bees out...

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I've never worried too much about the honey bees. Wasps will even show up and drink occasionally. The birds don't seem to mind the bees, sometimes they get irritated with the wasps, but they don't really slow down. If it doesn't bother them, it doesn't bother me.

I will be trying it for the first time this year. What happens in my yard is, first, the ruby throats thin out. Then, flowers get uncommon. Bees find a feeder and take it over. I want to leave at least two out in case I get an October Rufous. I kept one around for a while one Fall, but bees seem to be a deterrent.

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It’s nuts

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Yep,now we are filling up both feeders every 20 hours.

Here is little photo dump

4 part water : 1 part sugar

I have so many it’s insane. I made 2 feeders out of makers mark whiskey fifths. I fill them at and both are empty at 3:30. I have 8 ports on each one. Sometimes there is 10 or 12 on each feeder and I don’t know how many are buzzing around the are actually sharing the port holes.. it’s crazy

Have gone from 15+ all day long to 4-6 now.

Wife been fussing about all the sugar getter used up.