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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Small but smart

A hummer from our yard

I’m talking about hummingbirds.  They are so pretty and so smart.  There must be a big brain in their heads.  They share the hummingbird feeder with a family of orioles, or perhaps several families of orioles.  The orioles can suck the feeder dry in a matter of days, so we got a gigantic one.  Now it lasts about a week before it needs to be filled again.

The feeder visited by several birds

We’ve been working a lot of hours and that was on my to-do list today.  That list was long because Tuesday is my only day off this week.  Around 5 PM a hummingbird came to the big windows and hovered there looking at us.  I know it was trying to tell me the feeder needed some food.  The hummers have done this before.  I’m amazed that they know someone in the house will go and fill the feeder up if they get our attention.  Now you have to be doing some kind of thinking to figure that out.


Orioles enjoying the feeder

The birds do sit in the trees and watch us bring the feeder in and put it back out again.  I guess they’ve figured out we have nectar in the house somewhere.  They did this sort of thing when we lived in California too.


Have you ever had a hummingbird alert you to an empty feeder?

6 comments:

  1. They are so cute. I have not had a bird alert me to an empty feeder, but our dog once alerted me to his empty water dish. I felt so bad.

    Betty

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    1. Betty,

      Animals and wildlife seem to know how to tell us humans things.

      Thanks for reading.
      Sunni

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  2. No, but the feeders around my area don't get sucked dry that quickly. Clever birds.

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    1. Liz,

      We do have some clever birds. Even the finches and sparrows have figured out how to get nectar out of the feeder by rocking it back and forth.

      Thanks for reading.
      Sunni

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  3. We have 2 goldfinch that come to it, but I don't know how they
    get anything from it. When ours is empty, the hummingbirds circle my hubby.

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    1. pilch,

      Wildlife have a way of letting you know. I imagine your goldfinches get the nectar out the same as our sparrows and finches. Where there's a will, there's a way.

      Thanks for reading.
      Sunni

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