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How to Attract Hummingbirds to a Feeder

This video will tell you about how to effectively attract hummingbirds to your yard. In it you will discover what to use as the food source, why the feeder must be inaccessible to cats and why growing trumpet-shaped flowers throughout the garden is important.

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Black-Chinned Hummingbird Grooming

Even a hummingbird has the need to groom itself. It is likely that few of you have actually witnessed this event firsthand, so you many wonder how the hummingbird does so. This video shows a Black-chinned Hummingbird actually grooming itself and in addition I have explained a bit about how a hummingbird accomplishes the task of grooming itself.

The hummingbird’s bill and claws are the tools it uses to groom its self. The hummingbird will clean itself by using the oil from a gland near their tail. The hummingbird will groom all parts of its body. Here is how the bird does so.

When the hummingbird wants to groom its head and neck, the bird will do so by using its front three claws like a comb. When a hummingbird wishes to groom their beak or neck, the hummingbird will do so by rubbing them against a twig.

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Gardening for Hummingbirds

This video will tell you how to naturally attract hummingbirds. You will discover why it is important to naturally attract hummingbirds. You will find out to properly prepare the container prior to planting your plants as well as a wide variety of plants that you can put in a container garden and how it is best to arrange the plants in the container.

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Wild Photo Adventures TV Series 206

If you are a hummingbird enthusiast who wants to discover a wide variety of useful information that will help you to have more success photographing hummingbirds, this is a video you must see. In this video professional wildlife photographer Doug Gardner and Ben Clewis share tips and techniques for photographing hummingbirds in your backyard. This video is part of the Wild Photo Adventure TV Series and is episode number 206.

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Bird Watching: How to Clean a Hummingbird Feeder

This easy to understand video offers some simple tips on how to properly clean and maintain your hummingbird feeder. It is extremely important to do so to ensure that you do not cause harm to the hummingbirds that visit your yard.