Bird Watching: Hummingbird Adventures #14, 1 by ducbucln

ducbucln wrote:
SW, congrats on the new camera.

I wanted to pass on a tip for those of you that have your feeders hanging out in the hot sun. I have two feeders that get very warm during our 100's days and my aunt just sent me a Birds and Blloms book that may have given me some help with this suggestion.

To keep the sugar water cooler, take a "white" plastic bottle, cut out the bottom of it and hang your feeder through it. I just started doing this last night and so far it seems to work. Kinda like an insulated glass or cup so I'm hoping this works. My larger Orioles didn't seem afraid of it at all and as long as the plastic bottle doesn't go down too far, they can still get the juice too.