Wildlife & Related

[Bailey Guns]

That's fantastic info, Hummer. I had no idea those little guys/gals lived that long. And 9 gals of sugar water?!? Wow...I'm impressed when we go thru 4 cups in a day between our 2 feeders.

[Hummer]

Very cool. How do you catch them?

We use mist nets, cage wire traps and cloth bonnet traps with flowers or feeders inside. Federal and state licenses of course.

That's fantastic info, Hummer. I had no idea those little guys/gals lived that long. And 9 gals of sugar water?!? Wow...I'm impressed when we go thru 4 cups in a day between our 2 feeders.

The 50% that survive the first year might live on average 4-8 years for females, a year or so less for males. Amazing that a 3.5 gram bird will live to migrate to Mexico and back for several years.

If you feed them they will come. It's as simple as that. Our feeders and flowers bring in a lot of birds. Figure about 550 birds per gallon per day, maybe 2-4 times that number of birds during migration. Lots of variables. I'm running 19 feeders here now, and eight feeders at our farm outside Palisade.