Pacific Northwest Gardening: Show me your hummingbirds, 1 by susybell

susybell wrote:
Here's my winter hummer feeder solution. Not ideal, but better than getting up at 5am to bring the feeders back out-not too reasonable for a night owl like me....We use a fairly low-watt 75w flood light mounted somewhere around 12 or 18" below the feeder and only turn it on on nights that get really cold. It's just enough heat when mounted that low to keep the nectar from freezing. We found, but haven't bought yet, an outlet plug-in that has a thermostat in it that will turn on at 35' and off at 40'-we want to get one of those for next year.