• Home
  • About The Book
  • About Ella
    • Recognitions
  • Bookstore
  • Gallery
  • Blog
  • Contact
  Ella Clem

Hummingbirds

5/6/2016

0 Comments

 
     We start seeing the Ruby-throated hummingbird’s in our area sometime in the April. We have hummingbird feeders in our backyard. We make our own sugar water. In a pan boil 4 cups of water and 1 cup of white, granulated sugar, let it cool down, and then put it in the ref. Please don’t use red food color in their sugar water, it isn’t good for them.
​       When we are ready to fill up the feeders, we will set the sugar water out of the ref. to warm up some. In warm weather we will change the sugar water in their feeders about twice a week, when it gets hot we will change it four times a week, in cool weather once a week.  We also clean their feeders often, using hot soapy water, and rinsing well to get rid of the soap. We don’t want our hummingbirds to get sick.
      The hummingbirds have great memories and will migrate back to the same area year after year, as long as their food source is still there. Besides using our hummingbird feeders we have plants in our yard that they like to feed from. We don’t use chemicals in our yard because the flowers that we have, the butterflies and hummingbirds like to feed from.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Home

    Archives

    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016

    Categories

    All
    Active Mind & Birds
    American Robins
    Blue Birds
    Blue Jays
    Brown Creeper
    Butterflies
    Cardinals
    Chickadee
    Dove
    Downy Woodpecker
    Finches
    Grosbeaks
    Horses
    Hummingbirds
    Nature
    Nuthatch
    Orioles
    Rabbit
    Skunk
    Sparrows
    Squirrels
    Titmouse
    Towhee
    Vultures
    Warblers
    Water-birds
    Waxwing
    Whitetail-deer
    Wild-turkey
    Woodpeckers
    Wrens


    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • About The Book
  • About Ella
    • Recognitions
  • Bookstore
  • Gallery
  • Blog
  • Contact