On 7/21/2014 9:39 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2014-07-21 9:30 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>>> I never boiled it. I didn't put one out this year. Once you put it
>>> out, you
>>> feel obligated to keep it going. On my kitchen window, I had to freeze
>>> for
>>> a while, until they were done feeding.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>> You don't have to stand still. They'll come back.
>
>
> Sure. They will come back, but when? It may depend on their options. We
> have a number of planters, flower boxes and hanging baskets with flowers
> as well as four different flower and herb garden, several flowering
> bushes and a lot of wild flowers. We usually only catch glimpses of
> humming birds. If we move they bolt and go elsewhere and they don't come
> back right away.
>
Unless you want to stand in one place for a long time, let them go on
about their business while you go on about yours. They aren't likely to
forget where the free sugar water is.

Here's a female ruby-throat that I managed to snap a picture of last year:

http://i1342.photobucket.com/albums/...psb84823f9.jpg

Jill