Post by Gardendipity on Dec 15, 2010 10:04:52 GMT -5
We saw this little hummingbird this morning, Dec. 15, 2010 at 8:52 am. She fed a long time, then just sat on the feeder, resting and warming up in the sun. She looked exhausted. We hope she'll stick around.
We have had sightings in our yard for several years, and posted them here. This is our first hummer sighting since August or September 2010.
We have hung a total of 8 feeders.
We're not sure if she is a Ruby, but we think she is.
We think the lowest temperature in our yard last night was 27 degrees. 4:1 sugar water freezes at 26/27 degrees, so the feeding solution was fine when the little bird got there this morning.
Most of our feeders are the 3 oz planter box kind without any place for the cold little birds to sit, and we were glad that we used two these larger feeders that gave the hummer a place to rest. Two of these feeders are hung just on the other side of our screened patio -- and this picture was taken through that screen while we were still inside the house jumping up and down -- "Look, look, a little hummer!"
We are located west of US Hwy 301 about a mile south of the Progress/Bloomingdale intersection. Riverview is about 12 miles south of the Tampa, and near Brandon.
We have had sightings in our yard for several years, and posted them here. This is our first hummer sighting since August or September 2010.
We have hung a total of 8 feeders.
We're not sure if she is a Ruby, but we think she is.
We think the lowest temperature in our yard last night was 27 degrees. 4:1 sugar water freezes at 26/27 degrees, so the feeding solution was fine when the little bird got there this morning.
Most of our feeders are the 3 oz planter box kind without any place for the cold little birds to sit, and we were glad that we used two these larger feeders that gave the hummer a place to rest. Two of these feeders are hung just on the other side of our screened patio -- and this picture was taken through that screen while we were still inside the house jumping up and down -- "Look, look, a little hummer!"
We are located west of US Hwy 301 about a mile south of the Progress/Bloomingdale intersection. Riverview is about 12 miles south of the Tampa, and near Brandon.
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