A hummingbird update. There are, I think, 2 pairs of hummingbirds using the various feeders I have outside. And boy are they getting through the sugar water - I'm having to refill them weekly. But maybe that is too regularly, is something else using the feeder? I still have my trail camera set up, but I haven't captured any raccoons on film recently. But I think I found the culprit - or more accurately culprits - this week, and it is an old enemy - wasps (maybe bees - but wasps make for a more obvious enemy). I have no idea what I can do about these. At the moment I just have a water spray bottle handy, which I'm using if I see the little sods on the feeder - but that is hardly a big deterrent. And the last thing I want to do is sit outside obsessively watching over the feeders all day, and totally incapable of getting anything else done. So I think I just have to live with this, and hope that the wasps/bees don't obstruct the hummingbirds from feeding.
Do you not think that hummingbirds are used to dealing with nectar competitiors (bees etc) in the wild?
ReplyDeleteYou're worrying unnnecessarily (IMHO).