Feeders

[Frogdoondey]

Hola:
I know that some hummingbirds species are hard to attract to feeders, but I don´t wan´t to give up so easey.
Any suggestions of feeders for small hummingbirds????
I have Saphire-throated Hummingbird in the garden and they seem to ignore the feeder. It´s the only specie we get, so it can´t be competion.
I will be happy if you have any suggestions or models that work for samll humms.
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[billhiltonjr]

What kind of ratio of sugar to water are you using in the feeders? Is it kept fresh?

[Frogdoondey]

What kind of ratio of sugar to water are you using in the feeders? Is it kept fresh?

Hi Bill:
I use the normal 4:1 ratio of sugar in my mix and I changed evrey 2 days. So far I am getting Bananaquits and a lonley red-crowned woodpecker.
I tried different places in the garden, differents heights but nothing seems to work.

I will remove the feeder for the next month until the dry season get tougher with no flowers. I guess humms will be hungry by them and I hope they will consider the feeder this time.

If you now of any feeder for small hummingbirds that could be helpfull, since the specie I get (Saphire-troathed Hummingbird) is quit small, let me know.

Thanks a lot.


Thanks.

[billhiltonjr]

Hi Bill:
I use the normal 4:1 ratio of sugar in my mix and I changed evrey 2 days. So far I am getting Bananaquits and a lonley red-crowned woodpecker.
I tried different places in the garden, differents heights but nothing seems to work.

I will remove the feeder for the next month until the dry season get tougher with no flowers. I guess humms will be hungry by them and I hope they will consider the feeder this time.

If you now of any feeder for small hummingbirds that could be helpfull, since the specie I get (Saphire-troathed Hummingbird) is quit small, let me know.

Thanks a lot.


Thanks.


Well, it sounds like you'r doing everything right. :-)

I don't think the size of the feeder is the problem, but Perky-Pet makes a really small 3-ounce Model Number 214.

My guess is that there are just too many natural foods available for your local hummers. Your strategy on waiting until the dry season when there will be lfewer flowers may work.

[humminbird]

Well, it sounds like you'r doing everything right. :-)

I don't think the size of the feeder is the problem, but Perky-Pet makes a really small 3-ounce Model Number 214.

My guess is that there are just too many natural foods available for your local hummers. Your strategy on waiting until the dry season when there will be lfewer flowers may work.


Thanks for jumping in there Bill. I was completely stumped on this one and would never have thought of the sugar water ratio, though I certainly should have!

I agree, it sounds like everything is right here. Feeder shy birds?

Mark
Bastrop, TX

[Missy]

I had one feeder in my back yard and 4 hummers and occassional one from the front yard. I bought 3 more feeders and placed them at the four corners of the yard. They are all but ignoring the original feeder and the closest one to it. They are all fighting over the one that I put up in a tree and the one closest to it at the opposite end of the yard. A female Costa has decided that she is the 'owner' of the one in the tree and has gotten into a flying battles with the male Anna that wants to drink out of it too. If she does let another bird drink, she complains loudly the whole time. My male Costa goes to the tree feeder too, but has started to feed off the flowers and flowering shurbs too. I've never seen any of the other hummers do it yet though.

[Rasmus Boegh]

If you have many different hummingbirds (as you do in Panama), try and place another feeder in a less obvious locality. A few shy species (even rather large ones) will not use a feeder if they in any way think they are threatened. Furthermore, some species of Neotropical hummingbirds won't use feeders - no matter what you do they just won't. Sometimes because they are exceptionally shy, other times because they have very specific feeding strategies that are impossible to replicate with a feeder.

[Frogdoondey]

Hello evreybody:

Hummingbirds are comming to the feeders at last. It was just the season that kept them away from the feeders but now there is less food in the jungle so my restaurant is bussy with at least 4 species: white-necked jacobins, rofous-tailed hummingbird, purple-crowned fiery and black-throated mango.

Thanks you all for the advices and I promise I will send a feedback of the output of diferent sugar-water ratio and diferent locations of feeders.