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Name:	Summer Lover -	Reply
Subject:	Hummingbird Family Fued
Date:	9/11/2012 11:08:19 PM (updated 9/11/2012 11:16:12 PM)

LM hummys

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Name:	Summer Lover -	Reply
Subject:	Hummingbird feeding
Date:	9/11/2012 11:17:27 PM

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Name:	LoveCamping -	Reply
Subject:	Red Dye?
Date:	9/12/2012 5:30:06 AM (updated 9/12/2012 5:32:38 AM)

We love our humming birds too. We have been feeding them for years and used to buy the store bought red dye type too. But hearing it may not be good we went with a 1/4 sugar to 3/4 water ratio and they love that as much or better than the store bought type. Here is a link you may want to read about red dye and store bought food.

http://www.hummingbirds.net/dye.html

Name:	Summer Lover -	Reply
Subject:	Red Dye?
Date:	9/12/2012 9:06:54 AM

I appreciate the heads up, I just used the last of the "store bought" at the house last night. My parents have been using home brew for several years, and I had considered doing the same - maybe it is time... :-)

Name:	BigFoot -	Reply
Subject:	Red Dye?
Date:	9/12/2012 10:36:03 AM

Thanks for that info and thanks to summer lover for the pics...always enjoy hummingbird threads...

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Attracting Hummingbirds
Date:	9/12/2012 11:39:33 AM

We have feeders at home and at the lake and I have never had any luck attracting hummingbirds. Do you do anything special or just build it and they come?

Name:	Summer Lover -	Reply
Subject:	Attracting Hummingbirds
Date:	9/12/2012 11:56:18 AM

Am doing nothing special, have two feeders running at the house and the one at the lake, and have customers at both places... You do not have any signs that declare you are an ICE agent do you - they may spook easily. :-)

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	Attracting Hummingbirds
Date:	9/12/2012 12:26:17 PM

The best tip I can give is one I read on internet this year. Be sure to place the feeders in a covered/protected space. I have had moderate luck in the past by putting then on Shepard's hooks or on porch rails etc. This year I read a little about them and hung the feeder on a low hanging branch of a River Birch tree near the back porch. They have been wearing it out since 10 minutes after it was hung. I have what I think must be two pair because at times there will be two feeding at once, but most of the time they are running each other away. They hang out the Birch tree and dive bomb when another comes to feed. It hasn't hurt any of them as we have watched them really fatten up getting ready to migrate.

Also make sure to change the water every 3-5 days depending on temp and sunlight because as you know the sugar water will start to ferment. And the 3 to 1 ratio of sugar water works as well as any store bought mix. The key also is to make sure your feeder has red on it. Red is their favorite color. In fact we saw them attracted to my can crusher before we bought the feeder. It is red and they would buzz it all day. They also buzzed the flag. I can go out in red t-shirt and stand real still near the feeder now and they will buzz me.

Good luck. Hope this helps.

Name:	lovelml -	Reply
Subject:	Attracting Hummingbirds
Date:	9/12/2012 7:01:44 PM

The sugar ratio is the one recommended by Bob Sergeant the hummer expert. a great web site is hummingbirds.net

We always hate to see October roll around, as they will have left us at Lake Martin. We are down to about 20 hummers early in the morning and just before dark. At the moment we are watching about 8, some of them fighting each other.

Name:	roswellric -	Reply
Subject:	Because..
Date:	9/13/2012 9:32:13 PM

Hummingbirds are Democrats. Always looking for a free lunch.

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