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a kennedy

(34,171 posts) Wed Aug 6, 2025, 09:12 PM Aug 6

Well, gotta buy another 10 pound bag of sugar.....my hummers have not stopped drinking for the last week.

My 10 pound bag of sugar is almost gone…..and when I buy another one it’ll be gone in about a month. 😅 little buggars. Heard they always remember flowers and feeding places, so this is what happened last year buy sugar, and fill the feeders dang near every other day. But…..I absolutely love these hummers.

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Well, gotta buy another 10 pound bag of sugar.....my hummers have not stopped drinking for the last week. (Original Post) a kennedy Aug 6 OP

The hummingbirds love porterweed markodochartaigh Aug 6 #1

It must be a banner year for hummers. We haven't seen one for several years until this summer. rsdsharp Aug 6 #2

I go thru a 25 lb bag every 3-4 weeks or so. alittlelark Aug 6 #3

I've been thinking of setting up a feeder because this heat is really wearing on the one that come to my yard. Baitball Blogger Aug 6 #4

1 cup sugar to 4 cups water, boil, let the mixture cool down then fill the feeders. a kennedy Aug 6 #5

We always put up our feeders during spring and fall migration, surfered Aug 6 #6

What a cheap cost JMCKUSICK Aug 6 #7

Ya, and you're right, a little cost for such pleasure..... a kennedy Aug 6 #9

We have had hummers for almost 20 years Omaha Steve Aug 6 #8

I am so jealous! My neighbors and I put up several feeders weeks niyad Aug 6 #10

and sorry, but where are you??? a kennedy Aug 7 #11

Colorado Springs. This lack of hummers is unusual. niyad Aug 7 #12

markodochartaigh

(3,698 posts)

1. The hummingbirds love porterweed

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Wed Aug 6, 2025, 09:18 PM

Aug 6

and there are several new varieties of porterweed. It doesn't freeze back in Florida and blooms all year. Tomorrow I'm taking a bunch of cuttings to grow a new hedge.

rsdsharp

(11,218 posts)

2. It must be a banner year for hummers. We haven't seen one for several years until this summer.

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Wed Aug 6, 2025, 09:30 PM

Aug 6

On the evening of July 4th, while watching the fireworks from our deck, a female hummer spent 15-20 minutes at the flowers in containers on the deck — within 5-6 feet of us.

alittlelark

(19,047 posts)

3. I go thru a 25 lb bag every 3-4 weeks or so.

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Wed Aug 6, 2025, 09:30 PM

Aug 6

4 feeders, almost daily refills. Jemez is a Hummingbird Haven

Baitball Blogger

(50,808 posts)

4. I've been thinking of setting up a feeder because this heat is really wearing on the one that come to my yard.

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Wed Aug 6, 2025, 09:42 PM

Aug 6

With flower volume down, they are scratching the bottom.

Do you have any tips on making the sugar water?

a kennedy

(34,171 posts)

5. 1 cup sugar to 4 cups water, boil, let the mixture cool down then fill the feeders.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #4)

Wed Aug 6, 2025, 09:51 PM

Aug 6

surfered

(8,689 posts)

6. We always put up our feeders during spring and fall migration,

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Wed Aug 6, 2025, 09:52 PM

Aug 6

JMCKUSICK

(3,657 posts)

7. What a cheap cost

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Wed Aug 6, 2025, 11:29 PM

Aug 6

For such immense beauty, fascination and pleasure eh?

a kennedy

(34,171 posts)

9. Ya, and you're right, a little cost for such pleasure.....

Reply to JMCKUSICK (Reply #7)

Wed Aug 6, 2025, 11:46 PM

Aug 6

Omaha Steve

(106,753 posts)

8. We have had hummers for almost 20 years

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Wed Aug 6, 2025, 11:29 PM

Aug 6

They fight all the time here.

OS

niyad

(126,336 posts)

10. I am so jealous! My neighbors and I put up several feeders weeks

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Wed Aug 6, 2025, 11:47 PM

Aug 6

ago. I don't think we have had more than just a few of the little beauties.

a kennedy

(34,171 posts)

11. and sorry, but where are you???

Reply to niyad (Reply #10)

Thu Aug 7, 2025, 12:00 AM

Aug 7

I have names for all mine…..bobber, guzzler, gazer, bomber, and flighty. 5 hummers, most are females. It’s funny, have seen females all drink at the same time, but when the red neck male comes around, all the females quit drinking and let “him” drink.

niyad

(126,336 posts)

12. Colorado Springs. This lack of hummers is unusual.

Reply to a kennedy (Reply #11)

Thu Aug 7, 2025, 12:02 AM

Aug 7

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