Last weekend while out bike riding the strangest bird ran across in front of us. He and the Mrs.have a nest in one of the trees along the bike path. She was in the nest feeding the little ones.
Turns out these guys are road runners. Just like the cartoon they are too cool.
They eat snakes, lizards and other assorted small reptilian wild life.
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I use 1/3 cup white sugar and 1 cup water in my feeders. I re-fill them after a rain or if they have gone a week with out changing. If you put in too much sugar you’ll have yellow jackets all over your feeders and the hummingbirds will avoid them.
Put your hummingbird feeders up high. The males will fight over them and come close to the ground while fighting. This makes them prey for cats if the feeders are too low.
Atty. Donald Burger has the dates listed back through 1993 of the hummingbirds arrival in the spring and the fall. March 23rd is the earliest spring migration he records and Aug 3rd is the earliest fall migration he recorded.
He also notes the spring migration lay over here is much shorter than the fall.
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