Three is the magic number...

11 years ago

...of hummingbird feeders! Finally no fighting. Enough for everyone.

I also found a different kind of feeder on Amazon that got rave reviews, so I ordered two of those and threw out one of the old ones that was the upside-down bottle style and hard to clean.

These new ones have a shallow bowl shape with a lid that has four feeders around it and a sitting rail all around.

I also found some mini bungi cords at the hardware store to help me reach the hanging hooks.

Peace and quiet at last and I hope it continues.

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centralcacyclist
11 years ago
Yippie! I'd love to see photos.
dedtired
11 years ago
Good. Can you link to the feeder you bought? I get so tired of cleaning away mold on my feeders. Glad to hear there is peace upon the land.
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Gina_W
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11 years ago
Here it is, it's a HummZinger!

It's plastic, so no need to worry about breaking glass. Also, I looked at the old feeder, and it appears that when the birds sat on one of the four "flowers" - when another bird lit on an opposite flower, they saw it through the glass bottle, which distorted the view so that the other bird looked bigger. Either that or the birds didn't have a clear view of each other. With the new one they see each other around the "Round table" -- or I'm just full of it and overthinking this!
Lars
11 years ago
I kept four feeders up last winter, but now that the yard is much more full of flowers, I only have one, and Bernard put that up when he was here. I had taken all of them down for the summer because they weren't being visited. I have the glass type that your birds don't like - they don't seem to mind it in my yard.

I'll put more up after we harvest the apples. Right now a lot of succulents are blooming. I'll post pictures of one of those later - it just started blooming for the first time, and I've had it over two years.

Lars
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11 years ago
Good to know, we have constant battles at the feeder, hummingbirds are VERY territorial. I'll have to get two more before spring.

Thanks
annie1992
11 years ago
thanks, Gina. I don't feed the hummingbirds, although I have a yard full of them all summer, they love my neighbor's flowers!

Makayla wants a hummingbird feeder, though, so I'm shopping.

Annie
Bumblebeez SC Zone 7
11 years ago
I don't have a feeder either but I have tons of flowers that hummers like and my ONE resident is always fighting off others. Last year I found a nest, it was precious.
I wish I had lots of hummers but it is what it is.
doucanoe
11 years ago
I only have/had one hummer feeder, but there are usually more than enough flowers to keep all the little buggers busy!

I say HAD because the resident bear came around in July and bit several holes in the hummer feeder I had. It was totalled.

So I made so with the oriole feeder for the rest of the season but I'll have to get a new hummingbird feeder for next spring.

Thanks for that link, Gina! I am shopping, too!
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