Morning Glories: Becky's MGs and Other Plants Part 11, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
gardenpom - Make sure you change the feeder sugar water every 3 days, otherwise the nectar will spoil and the hummers will stay away from the feeders. They are hard to catch at the feeders because they only come long enough to drink and then leave. But I can see the one feeder through the french doors and notice it off and on all day long on the weekends when I am home.

Here is a photo of the other hummer. I have one feeder in the back yard and one in the front so they don't fight over them. (But they still do!) The photo above is a photo of a resident female Ruby-throat hummer who guards that feeder and won't let any other hummers near it.

The attached photo is of a possible juvenile male RTH. I am wondering if this hummer might be the female's offspring. I don't know, but I do wonder.

Keep the feeders up and changed regularly and you WILL get visitors to them especially now since all their nectar plants are dead from the freezing weather of last week. You might have the best luck catching them at the feeder around 8 am in the morning and around 4:30 - 5:00 pm at night. They are really hungry when they wake up and then they tank up with nectar/sugar water right before they head to a tree to sleep at night. :-)