This deep into winter, I am really missing my hummers a lot each day. Locally, we’ve had numerous snowstorms and today is a bitter cold today – wind chill about -10 degrees F. I know we’ve had five weeks of lengthening days and even though there are several active feeders in the yard with cardinals, titmouses, nuthatches, purple finches, goldfinches, chickadees, downy woodpeckers, juncos and others, it’s just not the same. I can’t anticipate that at any moment, a tiny, flying jewel will just suddenly be there at my window, as if by magic. It is hard to even write that it will be ten or more weeks before I can reasonably expect my first hummer visits.
But, my nectar tubes are all cleaned thoroughly with the 10% bleach solution and ready to pop into feeders as soon as freezing threats retreat, probably in March, even though that is at least a month early for most seasons. Hope springs eternal and you just never know when an unexpected bird finds itself way away from its normal habitation and needing some nectar in my back yard…
Do you still have hummers where you are?
Even though I will be a jealous as can be, I will always be interested to hear from you about specific locations that still have hummers now, this far into the winter. As I noted in our blog, there was an instance of a west coast Allen Hummingbird in Cape Cod in December. Ultimately, the bird had to be rescued and was being treated by a bird specialist locally the last I read. Anyway, if you have a minute and are willing to drop a line about the hummers still in your back yard, that would be great and help tide me over until April
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I am also, of course, always very interested to hear any feedback regarding the performance of or your experience with the Hummer Photo Feeder™ the Roseburg™ or the brand new Hummer Stik™ as well as cleaning brushes and glass pump bottles for dispensing nectar to tubes.
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Please visit your blog Hummingbird Haven and better yet, please jump in. I do expect to add a couple of entries in the near future. If you’ve lost the email inviting you to be a fully enabled post author, just drop me an email and I will send a new one. Just reply to that invitation and join the fun. Find the blog here: http://hummerhaven.blogspot.com/
Happy Hummers and a Snug Warm Winter until the next time…
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