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Pack a Hummingbird Feeder or Several.

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We travel with several hummingbird feeders and the one we stick to our dinette window gives us a lot of entertainment. Hummingbird feeders are cheap and you can mix the sauce by combining 4 parts water to one part sugar, heating until the sugar is dissolved and then put in some lime, lemon or orange juice. Let cool before putting out. The citric acid helps prevent bacterial growth.

We're on an extended boondocking trip right now in Wyoming and it's very dry and there's not much food for the little hummers. We're seeing a lot of desperate and weary hummingbirds showing up and fueling up on their way south.

Watching them jockey for position is something that will entertain kids and many adults for hours.
2014 Lance 992
2014 Ram 3500 DRW Turbo diesel
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Busdriver wrote:
The only problem with temporary, feeding, when animals or birds, find a food source, what happens when you move on


Great question.

Hummingbirds have evolved to keep looking for other food sources. Imagine how quickly a flower runs out of nectar. So they quickly find other sources of food. They do not become dependent. I have heard this from many ornithologists including some at Cornell.

Right now we're on a fall migration route and we're finding a lot of exhausted hummers coming to the feeders. We've noticed that they refuel for a day or two and then keep moving. It's very dry in Wyoming right now and food is hard to come by. The adult males moved through a while back and all that are coming through now are females and juveniles. Some of these juvies are really struggling when they get here. But they bounce back and keep moving. I'm happy to help them on their journey.

We got the idea that we should put up our traffic cones to attract them from a distance. We can see for miles in our current location so we put out the two cones and it worked like a charm. They come straight for the traffic cone then look around camp for anything red, blue or yellow.


We probably had 20 buzzing around yesterday, most of those have moved on and more should be arriving by noon.
2014 Lance 992
2014 Ram 3500 DRW Turbo diesel

Busdriver
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The only problem with temporary, feeding, when animals or birds, find a food source, what happens when you move on

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2019 2500 Chevy Duramax , - 2017 Grand Design 303 RLS

Lwiddis
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We feed them at home. Will try when camping. TY
Winnebago 2101DS TT & 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 LTZ Z71, WindyNation 300 watt solar-Lossigy 200 AH Lithium battery. Prefer boondocking, USFS, COE, BLM, NPS, TVA, state camps. Bicyclist. 14 yr. Army -11B40 then 11A - (MOS 1542 & 1560) IOBC & IOAC grad