Spent my whole adult life saying I didn’t give a shit about birds. Yeah.
When I lived in Chicago 20 years ago, and their bodies were littering the streets from West Nile virus, I noticed. I noticed the lack of birds in the sky. Seems no one else did.
I now have 3 different types of feeders and a birdhouse.
Got my childhood treasures back, uh, there’s a lot of antique bird figurines. And I used to collect owls.
Saw a pileated woodpecker for the first time at camp in December. NEAT! Got a couple of feeders and started learning to make suet.
What do you do for hummingbird food? I’m trying to attract them to my apartment’s roof garden. I see them up there once or twice a year so I know they get this high up but I want more
You can make hummingbird nectar at home. I think it’s 4:1 water to sugar, let it cool after boiling to dissolve and fill up a feeder. Double check the ratio but I used to get them at my 21st floor apartment. Good luck, they are my favorites!
Spent my whole adult life saying I didn’t give a shit about birds. Yeah.
But I’m not really into birds.
What do you do for hummingbird food? I’m trying to attract them to my apartment’s roof garden. I see them up there once or twice a year so I know they get this high up but I want more
You can make hummingbird nectar at home. I think it’s 4:1 water to sugar, let it cool after boiling to dissolve and fill up a feeder. Double check the ratio but I used to get them at my 21st floor apartment. Good luck, they are my favorites!
Plant a little salvia and place feeders near. mine used to draw them in like cats to catnip.
Those pileated woodpeckers are so big! Like the size of a chicken, they’re so cool.