I think I pissed off my hummingbirds...

[Saint_Ann]

Little fucking prima donnas. Come back or don't. See if I care.


(please come back)

 

[Saint_Ann]

You know...they migrate. I wish I had a nickel for everytime I've seen a flock of migrating hummingbirds.

 

[Champakian]

They've been passing through here. It makes sense, we still have things in bloom.

Didn't see any of them this year, but in the last two weeks,
I've had to keep refilling the feeders.

Here today -- Gone tomorrow.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I reckon they've always been there living their lives and not bothering anybody...kinda like conservative women.

 

[jaF0]

I have three or four, hard to count them. Should be gone in another few weeks.

Yellow Jackets are hogging the feeders though. And some sort of big wasp type things. One of them just caught a yellow jacket and ate it while the others watched.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I have three or four, hard to count them. Should be gone in another few weeks.

Yellow Jackets are hogging the feeders though. And some sort of big wasp type things. One of them just caught a yellow jacket and ate it while the others watched.

I've killed every black ant in a 25' radius of the feeder. They climb up the slippery 8' steel pole, down the shepherds hook, drop to the feeder, stick their tiny heads into the holes and go for a swim to a suggary death. I have noticed the hbirds perch on the feeder ring and poop. Sweet, sweet hbird poop.

 

[twister947]

I've killed every black ant in a 25' radius of the feeder. They climb up the slippery 8' steel pole, down the shepherds hook, drop to the feeder, stick their tiny heads into the holes and go for a swim to a suggary death. I have noticed the hbirds perch on the feeder ring and poop. Sweet, sweet hbird poop.

The Perky Pet Ant Guard (245L) works as advertised.

 

[Saint_Ann]

The Perky Pet Ant Guard (245L) works as advertised.

It seems counter-intuitive to have to kill the ants to feed the birds...but I made the moral bypass to do it. Having the time, working from home, to watch them is a Covid blessing. Count them where you can.

 

[girlsmiley]

Little fucking prima donnas. Come back or don't. See if I care.


(please come back)

I'd love to see a hummingbird. They're quite cute with their tiny little everything.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I'd love to see a hummingbird. They're quite cute with their tiny little everything.

Those stupid little birds got me to thinking about what brings me joy and how those things tend to come and go in my life. Like sex. I'm not really sure it brings me joy anymore. Mostly relief I suppose. I guess it's important. Beethoven wrote a symphony to it 200 years ago but of course by then he was completely deaf...so hard to say how joyfull he truly was.

 

[Saint_Ann]

And then he died.

 

[Champakian]

I've killed every black ant in a 25' radius of the feeder. They climb up the slippery 8' steel pole, down the shepherds hook, drop to the feeder, stick their tiny heads into the holes and go for a swim to a suggary death. I have noticed the hbirds perch on the feeder ring and poop. Sweet, sweet hbird poop.

I let the ants have at it.
It keeps them out of the house.

I still have an active skink at the back door.
He needs to settle down for a long winter's nap...

 

[Champakian]

I still have a hummer corpse laying up in the pole barn.

I don't know why I've left him there.

Don't know how he got trapped.

 

[Fermina_Daza]

We weren’t allowed to feed birds this year - some bird flu. I’d blame a politician but maybe they should get a pass….this time.

 

[Saint_Ann]

We weren’t allowed to feed birds this year - some bird flu. I’d blame a politician but maybe they should get a pass….this time.

That's ridiculous. Did you move to North Korea?

 

[Tigersman]

I was out on my deck today when a hummingbird first checked out my grill and then a bottle of weed killer that had red and yellow on it. I've cleaned and refilled two of my feeders but still have one to go.

 

[Champakian]

We usually only see Ruby-Throated, but I saw one of the big green ones last week.

That is a very rare sighting in these parts.

They might follow the Mississippi.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The ones that lived on my feeder all summer are gone. Time to take that feeder down and the seed feeder up for the winter birds

 

[Champakian]

I keep a feeder up all year.
You see some wonderful migratory birds in the spring and fall.
I used to keep a couple of books on hand for identification, but I know most of them now.
I guess that makes me a bird watcher, but like too many deer hunters, I lure rather than hunt.



I'm probably a couple of weeks from putting out the suet.
'Peckers gotta eat too as well as being eaten.