Saturday, August 21, 2010

Hummers Only

I have a hummingbird feeder, and this year it has been quickly sucked dry by this non-humingbird and his many friends.I prefer discrimination in this case, and want hummingbirds only. So, using a 2 liter soda bottle and a hot glue gun, I modified the feeder. Since it looked like the larger bird was barely able to balance and tuck their head down to reach the feeder, the basic idea was to slightly obstruct access and make it impossible to balance and reach the feeding hole at the same time.
It appears to work since the the non-hummingbirds have been absent for a week and the food now lasts several days.

Rick

1 comment:

Jan Hames said...

Brilliant (as usual ;-)