I have an enduring love for nature and I especially love humming birds. I have been making humming bird feeders for my mom for many years now. I have come up with a new design ( for me) that I like and have decided to go at it for a while and see what I come up with. The night I made this video I cut 6 bird feeders, and all of them turned out great. As always let me know what you think .
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Photos of flowers, plants, insects, etc. in my garden.
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Not realy. It’s a Jamaican apple tree full of flowers, fruit and hummingbirds having a field day with the sweet nectar. The carpet of pink under the tree…never seen anything like that. The Jamaican apple tree was at the Chukka Caribbean Adventures River Safari end in the White River Valley. We booked this tour from our resort, the Franklyn D Resort in Runaway Bay. More info about FDR: fdrholidays.com More about chukka adventures: www.chukkacaribbean.com
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Not realy. It’s a Jamaican apple tree full of flowers, fruit and hummingbirds having a field day with the sweet nectar. The carpet of pink under the tree…never seen anything like that. The Jamaican apple tree was at the Chukka Caribbean Adventures River Safari end in the White River Valley. We booked this tour from our resort, the Franklyn D Resort in Runaway Bay. More info about FDR: fdrholidays.com More about chukka adventures: www.chukkacaribbean.com
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How to Attract Wildlife to Your Flower Garden
Article by Pat Lowe
Flower gardening truly is an art. With each seasonal garden, you will come up with more ideas on how to enhance your backyard ecosystem. Many people enjoy reading about gardening tips on how to attract wildlife to their gardens. As a child, you may recall chasing yellow, orange and white butterflies, but perhaps you seldom see them anymore. Most of us remember our first glimpse of a tiny, delicate hummingbird or the first time a dragonfly touched our skin while we were floating on a raft at the lake. Certain plants are dynamos for luring these wonderful creatures to our back doorsteps. While you are free to incorporate whatever flowers you’d like into your garden, adding a few carefully chosen wildlife favorites will give you much more to gaze upon.
If you’re considering creating a garden that will catch the attention of song birds, then you can include a few special shrubs, annuals, perennials, cultivated and native vegetation to attract them to your property. By growing plants from each group, you can provide seeds and fruit for every season to keep the birds chirping year round. Make sure to provide a bird bath and toss seeds out in the wintertime to keep your bird family content.
Also, consider the fact that, along with your flowers, birds are fond of trees for nesting, protection and cover from the elements. Sometimes the trees also provide food including berries, sap and seeds. You can consider deciduous trees such as hazelnut, American mountain ash, chestnut, dogwood, red mulberry, black walnut and sassafras, as well as evergreen trees such as blue spruce, American holly, red cedar Douglas fir, white cedar, ponderosa pine and California juniper.
Flower gardening is an important source of food for sparrows, finches and other songbirds. You can try perennials like penstemon, tickseed, bee balm, goldenrod, cosmos, purple coneflower and four o’ clocks, or you may try annuals like sunflowers, asters, bachelor’s button, spider flower, snapdragons and cockscomb. Garden guides also recommend planting shrubs and vines where birds can hide from predators and seek out food. Some tasty plants (like cherries and raspberries) are preferable to our flying friends, but they’re picked clean in a hurry. On the other hand, birds can be seen feasting all year long on elderberries, blackberries, huckleberries, chokecherries, bayberries, Oregon grapes, beauty-berries, silver-berries, blueberries, crab apples, cranberries and currants all year long.
If you’re flower gardening to attract butterflies, then you will need a place for the insects to gather water, to seek solace from the sun and predators, as well as sources to breed and feed. With the exception of monarchs and other migrators, butterflies generally don’t like to migrate too far from what they need, so if your yard has it all, you’re likely to keep these beautiful insects around. Garden supplies stores online sometimes sell butterflies from farms that you can let loose in your backyard once it’s all set up to jumpstart the process.
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Your house may be beautiful, but if the surrounding property isn’t well maintained, it ruins the whole effect. What you need is some garden design ideas that will help you create the perfect setting for your home. You can find them at the Landscaping Ideas site.
Attracting Hummingbirds with Homemade Nectar
Article by Judi Cox
Homemade Hummingbird Nectar Recipe
Attracting Wild Birds
No need to buy the powdered Hummingbird Nectar mix from the store for this rewarding hobby. Instead, make your with this simple hummingbird nectar recipe. You only need water and white sugar – super simple and easy to make.
Use the following proportion:1 part regular white sugar to 4 parts water.Example: 1 cup sugar, 4 cups water
1. Boil the water. 2. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. 3. Let cool.4. Refrigerate in a designated hummingbird feeder pitcher.
Using a microwave works too. Put the water in a microwave safe container and heat to boiling point. Carefully remove and add sugar. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. I fill my clean feeders and set them aside to cool and let the rest cool a bit before storing in the fridge.
Nothing extra: There is not need to add anything extra to the mixture, i.e. coloring, honey, etc. It’s not necessary and could be harmful. Honey will quickly ferment becoming poisonous to the birds.
Storing hummingbird nectar: I store all varieties of my wild bird (Orioles, Hummingbirds, Butterflies, etc) “juice” up to two weeks in the fridge, but generally need to make it more often than that.
Tip: I use a Rubbermaid container or a clean milk carton, clearly marked, to store my hummingbird juice in the refrigerator. Another idea I recently read is to freeze the extra. I may try this by putting it in a freezer bag and freezing flat. Once it is frozen, it would break up easily to place into the feeder.
Discard: If the juice in the feeder(s) becomes cloudy, or mucky. Empty, clean and refill.
Cleaning: Make sure bird feeders are cleaned every few days to a week to prevent any ickies. Cleaning with a solution of vinegar and hot water is good.
Location and Feeders: More than one feeder, placed strategically around the yard, will encourage more hummingbirds to visit at a time. They are territorial birds, so place feeders out of the line of sight of each other. Note: I have had hummingbirds share a feeder with no ill-will directed towards each other. Experiment a bit.
Enjoy bird watching!
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Judi Cox is a wife and mother of 4 children. Her hobbies include making handmade soap from scratch, gardening, crafts, web design and maintaining Mom’s Little Garden ( http://www.momslittlegarden.com/ ), an online resource for pregnant mothers, as well as her personal website, Momma Muse (http://www.mommamuse.com/ ) – includes more wild life and gardening information and adventures.
Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds and Garden D?cor Birdhouses ? Guidelines for Wood Birdhouse Care and Bully Bird Defense
The color red is notorious for attracting hummingbirds and this Ruby Flower Glass Hummingbird Feeder will be no exception. It delivers a whimsical artsy charm to your garden, two or more of these hummingbird feeders will lend credence to the saying “more is better.” I wrote about ways to attract hummers to your glass hummingbird feeders, so I think it is only right to warn you about at least one of the hummingbirds that you might attract in your area. That would be the Ruby-throated hummingbirds. If you have lured the Ruby-throated to your garden and glass hummingbird feeders you will soon find out that this little hummer is very territorial. They will defend the flowers and hummingbird feeders within their favorite roost spot very vigorously. If you wish to attract more than one hummer you may want to try putting up 2 or 3 more glass hummingbird feeders out of sight from each other. I suppose “out of sight out of mind” would work here. If the Ruby-throated hummingbird can’t see your other Ruby Flower Glass Hummingbird Feeders then they won’t be trying to bully the other hummers off.
Now a little about your hummingbird feeders needs. You will need to change the hummingbird nectar and clean your glass hummingbird feeder every 3 to 4 days and more often in hotter weather. If you see black spots inside your feeder it is mold, a good bottle brush or some sand in warm water will get rid of it. You should never use a harsh detergent to clean your glass hummingbird feeders. A good rinsing with hot water every time you change the nectar, if done on a regular basis, will eliminate any problems with mold. You may want to try only filling your hummingbird feeders half way so you don’t have as much waste. The little hummers can only drink so much hummingbird nectar in 3 or 4 days.
Here are a few pointers about the other half of the Bed & Breakfast for the birds in your garden. The Wedding Chapel Birdhouse will marry well with your collection of garden decor birdhouses. Painted bird houses come in all shapes and styles. The size and shape of your wood birdhouses should be determined by the type of species you wish to attract, and The Wedding Chapel Birdhouse would make for a nice Wren domicile.
Whatever type of wood birdhouse you wish to buy, here are a few general guidelines that will help keep your birds safe and your unique birdhouses in good shape. With few exceptions, bird houses should be made from wood. With wood birdhouses placement is much easier, a metal house must be hung in a shady area where it won’t absorb the heat from the sun. If your decorative birdhouses don’t have any holes drilled into the bottoms of them, drill some, this will keep rainwater from collecting inside. You should clean your wood birdhouses once a year to remove old nest materials making them ready for next year’s guests.
These simple guidelines will help you find the perfect decorative birdhouses for you and your garden’s visitors. Remember the birds’ comfort and safety should be number one and letting it show in your garden décor birdhouses lets everyone know it is number one to you.
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All About Humming Bird Feeders
Article by Mayoor Patel
Unlike many of the birds you may try to attract with feeders in your garden the hummingbird is not one to share. This is because they are one bird that is protective of its own territory and will not readily share a food source with other hummingbirds. That means if this is the bird you want to attract you will need to put several humming bird feeders around your garden. Hummingbirds are very accepting of where their feeders are located so you can put them in many locations. They can be outside a window of a home or office or on an apartment’s balcony. These places are as comfortable for the birds as if they are hanging from a tree branch. The thing you need to be sure of is whether the area you live in is one that hummingbirds travel through on their yearly migrations. You can find this out by doing a little research on the internet.
To ensure you have a chance of attracting these beautiful little birds put the humming bird feeders out early in the spring. Then keep them out there until the end of the fall. If you have previously attracted the hummingbirds and then there are none that will mean they have completed their migration south and it is time to put the feeders away until next year. They may get damaged by hanging outside during the poorer weather and since there will be no birds to feed it is wiser to bring them inside, clean them and store them until the next spring.
Hummingbird feeders can be bought or you can make them yourself. They are frequently made from a bottle or a tube. This kind of feeder is made from glass or plastic and has tiny holes in it for the feed, known as nectar, to come through. These feeders must be made to in a way that allows them to be cleaned regularly. Again, based on the nectar, this is important. You want to be able to take it completely apart and wash is each time before you are ready to refill it. The nectar is very easy to make. You take water, boil it, and then add sugar. It should be one fifth sugar with four fifths water which is then stirred until it is well mixed. Once this is done allow the mixture to sit until it has cooled. Then pour it into the nectar feeder and wait for those amazing little birds to come and have a drink.
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Mayoor Patel is the writer for the website http://bird-feeders.wares-are.us. Please visit for information on all things concerned with Humming bird feeders
READ FULL DESCRIPTION!! This is a baby hummingbird I rescued after it was attacked. The song is “Better Together” by Jack Johnson. UPDATE!!! when she thought she was ready to leave (and she was) she flew off to her favorite patch of the back yard, and her instincts instantly kicked in, and now she’s just like all the other hummingbirds. for those that are concerned that she has imprinted on humans and wouldn’t survive in the wild, don’t worry, she is thriving. she has even successfully migrated and returned back to my yard. and for those who think i didn’t know what i was doing, i did NOT feed her plain sugar water. i went outside 3 times a day and caught flies from my compost bin in big bags, crushed them, and mixed them in as well. I also helped her learn to catch flies while flying (not in the video because you obviously wouldn’t be able to see the flies). in the end, i don’t think it could have worked out any better
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