Bird Watching: Why we go through 175+ lbs. of sugar each summer..., 0 by Jill1989

Jill1989 wrote:
Twelve years ago, when we built our house in the middle of a farm field & moved in, a hummingbird buzzed our window. So we put up a feeder, as they started swarming the porch then another feeder, and another....one year we had 17 one quart feeders and they were draining them every 2 days.
The orioles used to try to get the nectar out, so we built the orioles their feeders for jelly and oranges. Now the hummingbirds can be seen helping themselves to jelly on the oriole feeders.