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Hummingbird Feeders

Hummingbird Feeder Size Selection

Hummingbird feeders come in all sizes. Many people who are new hummingbird enthusiast will choose the biggest hummingbird feeder they can find.   While I can understand your desire to provide plenty of nectar for the hummingbirds find in your area, here is why choosing the largest hummingbird feeder that is available when you are first starting out is a common mistake.

When you are a new hummingbird enthusiast, I would suggest that you start out by selecting a hummingbird feeder with a smaller nectar reservoir, perhaps 8 ounces or so.  This will help ensure that the nectar in the feeder will be far less likely to spoil before the hummingbirds are able to discover the location of your feeder.

Also having only the one small feeder will allow you to determine if there are a lot of hummingbirds in your area.  You can always add additional feeders later if the hummingbird population in your area is large and you see that one dominate hummingbird is trying to monopolize the one feeder.  You can place multiple feeders around your yard that are out of view of one another.

If you are a new hummingbird enthusiast and therefore just trying to start drawing hummingbirds to your yard, I would suggest that you start with a smaller size hummingbird feeder.  As the number of birds that visits your yard increases along with your knowledge and love of hummingbirds, you can eventually increase the size of your hummingbird feeder and even the number of them that you place throughout your yard.

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Hummingbird Photos

Hummingbirds are such beautiful creatures.  They are amazingly quick and can therefore be very difficult to photograph well.  I have great admiration for anyone who has had the good fortune to do so.  This video is a series of amazingly beautiful hummingbird photographs.  The shots are absolutely amazing and allow the birds to be seen in such great detail. 

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Dear Mom

Doctor Orders Bedrest

My family doctor has ordered bed rest for me.  I must remain in bed except for being allowed to eat and use the bathroom.  This is because the swelling in my right leg is not improving as it should without my legs being elevated.  The goal is that the bed rest will allow the swelling in the right leg to decrease enough to allow a compression stocking to be put on the right leg. 

On Tuesday, June 23, 2009, I have an appointment to see a Vascular Surgeon about the issues with my right leg.  It isn’t known what he will have to say about the matter, but I am hoping he will be able to successfully improve my condition.

Technically, I shouldn’t even be writing this post, because it requires me to be up for a little while.  I wanted to explain why there would not be any post for a while.  As of now, there is no way for me to know when I will once again be able to write another post.  Sorry about that.  Just know that I will do so just as soon as it is allowed by my doctor that I am no longer confined to bed rest.  

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Dear Mom

My Birthday 2009

Hello Everyone:

This is Hummingbird here. Today is a very special day for me; it is my 44Th birthday. This day has been extra special and meaningful because the past few months have been rather challenging for me health-wise. Things seem to be gradually improving with regard to my heath. I’m truly thankful for that!

I wish to offer a heartfelt thank you to all of those who have helped make this day so very special for me. You know who you are and how you helped make this day so very special, but I hope that you know how much I love and appreciate each of you so very much.

I loved spending time with my friends and family on this day. Thanks for all your love as well as all the wonderful gifts that were given to me. For any of you have followed this blog for any length of time now, you may know that my favorite desert is chocolate cream pie and that this was something that my mom would usually make for my birthday while she was still alive.My mom passed away several years ago so that is something I had missed having in recent years. Well, I’m happy to report that this year I received not one but two chocolate cream pies, two slices of cheese cake and even some cookies for desert. A dessert lover’s dream come true! Not to worry though, as I will be sharing the various desserts with my friends, as it would be impossible not to mention bad for my waistline to eat all those desserts myself!

I hope that you won’t mind that this post isn’t about hummingbirds. I wanted to share with you a little bit about how I spent my birthday. While I always feel extremely blessed to have such wonderful friends and family, a day like today truly makes me appreciate them that much more. Thanks everyone for all you do for me and for being such a huge blessing in my life. My life would not be the same without each of you in it!

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Hummingbird Videos

What is the Hummingbird’s Normal Habitat?

Have you ever wondered what is a hummingbird’s normal habitat?  It is anywhere that has red tubular flowers and insects but there is much more to it then that.  Watch this very informative video to discover much more including how to create your own hummingbird habitat in your yard.