Diet Hummingbirds primarily eat flower nectar, tree sap and insects. The hummingbird’s fast breathing rate, fast heartbeat and high body temperature require that they eat an enormous amount of food each day. Hummingbirds have a long tongue which they use to lick their food at a rate of up to 13 licks per second. Population It is difficult to estimate population numbers since there are many different species spanning a large geographic area. Range Hummingbirds are found only i

HOW TO VIDEO: Old hummingbird window feeders make great bee dishes! Since I have been putting up bee dishes, I have greatly cut down on the number of bees attacking the hummingbird feeders. When I see a lot of bees at a feeder, I either take the feeder down and replace it with a bee dish or replace the vacuum feeder with a saucer feeder and hang the bee dish next to it. Since the bees cannot drink from the saucer feeder, it has to get the water from the dish. Of course, it’s

You may have noticed that I changed the type of hummingbird feeders on the webcam. This is a method to help control bees. There is a drought in Southern California, and the local bees are desperate for water. What could be better for them than a water source that is sugary to boot! The bees are using the water dishes, but there are still a few on the feeders. Hummingbird feeders come in two basic types: saucer feeders and vacuum feeders. The saucer type is flat. You pour the

You love them and you hate them. Bees are fabulous pollinators and we depend on them for the fruits and vegetables we need. But please, bees – get your sugar from flowers, not our hummingbird feeders! To tempt and keep bees away from your hummingbird feeders, you need a multi-directional approach: 1. You should consider permanently or temporarily (until the bees forget where you are) using saucer feeders rather than vacuum feeders. The nectar level in saucer feeders is below