Hummingbird - 2019

[lasher]

maybe this will explain it

 

[Catt57]

So what are the benefits of hummingbirds? Simple enjoyment of seeing them? Do they improve your life by eating bugs? Are you catching them and making a stew? Enlighten me please.

Hummingbirds love to feast on soft-bodied insects like aphids, gnats, mosquitos, caterpillars, and they also eat insect eggs. They also can pollinate plants and flowers that other birds cannot reach.

 

[lasher]

and they can fly backwards, one of 2 or 3 birds that can hover. and they're little warriors

 

[jfssms]

my grands always hung syrup out for them. I enjoy watching them so much.

 

[dlbleak]

So what are the benefits of hummingbirds? Simple enjoyment of seeing them? Do they improve your life by eating bugs? Are you catching them and making a stew? Enlighten me please.

Besides the above mentioned things, I’m just a bird nerd.

 

[ron341]

Our front porch camera kept going off yesterday, we could not see what was setting it off. Very early this morning it finally caught our first one of the year here in Broken Arrow. The feeders are officially out for the season.

 

[SMS]

So what are the benefits of hummingbirds? Simple enjoyment of seeing them? Do they improve your life by eating bugs? Are you catching them and making a stew? Enlighten me please.

Have you ever just sat on your back porch, sipping a cold beer after a busy day at work, and watched them settle in to feed?

If you have, you might get it. If you have and you don't get it, when then there is no enlightening you LOL...

 

[Glock 40]

My MIL had feeders and had them all around her place in Osage county. My wife took them after she passed but hasnt ever put them out. lf they will eat bugs I will help her set them up.

 

[dlbleak]

Set em up. Pretty therapeutic way to relax.

 

[SMS]

My MIL had feeders and had them all around her place in Osage county. My wife took them after she passed but hasnt ever put them out. lf they will eat bugs I will help her set them up.

Just don't mess with any of that food coloring...simple sugar and water mix. Lot's of opinions surrounding it but I do well with 3 to 1 water/sugar ratio early when it's still cool, and 4 to 1 when the temps get high.