How many you need for a meal?
sd72 wrote:
4 and twenty for blackbirds so probably around 4 and thirty for hummingbirds...
10 if you drop them in the fryer direct. 8 if you bread them first.
Of course with a side of caterpillars always helps.
Encountered one some 20 years back on a hunting trip, confronted while walking on a trial holding a 12 gauge. Hovered about my face ready to jab my eyes out with surgical precision. Me, shotgun, no match, fascinating bird, have been feeding them ever since.
Around my feeder, one bird will claim it and chase others away. It is hilarious to see a 2" bully.
drnos wrote:
That is how it was until lately, not sure what changed?
Probably hafta paint the mosquitoes red first.
:-k
It is hilarious to see a 2" bully.
Jimmyct stopped by?
They haven't made it this far down yet. Only the same 5 that have been here all summer are buzzing around here.
mikey1597 wrote:
For a couple months I've only seen 2 or 3 at a time. Then yesterday about 30.
Do they eat mosquitoes?
bs_kwaj wrote:
They do eat bugs i'm told, at least the ruby throat that are the most common. one time when chasing another away it got its beak jammed in the screen, pried itself out just like woody woodpecker! ( both feet next to beak and push)
bike1 wrote:
Little fuggers will eat fruit flies, gnats, mosquitoes, spiders, small caterpillars and insect eggs.
It is a thing of beauty to watch one destroy a swarm of gnats.
not sure if it's true and when I googled this in the past I couldn't find anything... I've had 3 different people tell me that a preying mantis can kill and eat a hummingbird and that if you ever see one on your feeders you should relocate them... anyone heard this?
opelmanta1900 wrote:
Preying mantis, toads and even spiders will get their revenge if a hummer gets caught in one's web.
Put out our feeders week before in Chicagoland and have seen many coming by on their way down south.
