"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>> On 7/17/2014 5:00 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2014-07-17 4:54 PM, Susan wrote:
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>>>> One, just ONCE, I'd kill to see ONE!
>>>>
>>>> On vacation, the moment I left the porch of a b and b we were in, Tom
>>>> saw one. I got that close.
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking of making a hummingbird/butterfly garden inside a barrier
>>>> we installed after removing an invasive bamboo grove.
>>>> There's also trumpet vine climbing around the back wall there, so
>>>> maybe...
>>>>
>>>>
>>> If you want to see hummingbirds you should plant lots of the sorts of
>>> flowers that attract then, especially flowers with trumpet shapes. We
>>> often see them around the Rose of Sharon, day lilies and sun flowers.
>>>
>> Hummingbirds have very far ranges of migration, too. Of course it
>> depends on which coast in the Americas you're on as to which types of
>> hummingbirds you can attract. The right (bright) trumpet type flowers
>> and bright red feeders definitely call to them. The sugar water/nectar
>> does *not* need to be dyed red (contrary to popular belief). But they
>> are attracted to bright feeders just as they are to bright flowers.
>>
>> Jill
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> I've actually had them come after a blouse with red flowers on it before
> they realized it wasn't food.
>
> Cheri

Hahaha! That's how I got a bee sting. Made the mistake of picking pears
wearing a large flowered muu muu.

I once gave my bro a hummingbird feeder as a gift because I thought it was
pretty. I had no idea how high maintenance they are. That stopped me from
getting one for myself. The instructions actually said not to make the
nectar yourself and only to purchase it or you could sicken the birds. And
it had to be cleaned and disinfected so frequently that I wouldn't bother.
I'd be afraid that I'd forget or for some reason be unable to clean it and
kill the birds./