OT - making new friends in the off season

[ctfjr]

Found a new buddy at our house. Put out the feeder on Sunday & an hour later they were chowing down

 

[OldAlum]

I have some at my feeder too! Mostly see the female - I suspect she has a nest nearby. Great fun to watch. Amazing how quickly they find a feeder.
My female is now named Moriah...

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

We see them quite a bit around the yard, mostly earlier in the season (out here). It is 106 in the shade right now, of course there isn't much of that.

Interestingly, we have a night blooming cactus - last year's bloom attracted some beautiful hummingbirds and a cruising palo verde beetle. As unattractive a bug as there is.

 

[Bestiarius]

Great photo, ctfjr! Not often is the bug bigger than the bird, KBAZ.

 

[tomcat]

Wonderful photo! We've had some at our house for years, so my wife, whose motto seems to be, "Nothing exceeds like excess," and unsatisfied with 3 or 4 feeders, planted some bushes that have flowers beloved by hummingbirds. Those bushes now occupy a whole corner of the front yard and yeah, they are pretty even when not being visited by the birds.

 

[TDiNozzo]

A neighbor was out shopping for bird food... met a lady who has 22 humming bird feeders in her yard... Her husband makes ant moats to put on the hangers...gave her a few....very cleaver.

 

[CL82]

Wait is that your actual photo? I thought it was a stock shot. It is great. What settings and what camera did you shoot it with.

I've never set up a feeder but I have had red flowers in my deck boxes that draw them right in. They are fun to watch.

 

[ctfjr]

Wait is that your actual photo? I thought it was a stock shot. It is great. What settings and what camera did you shoot it with.

I've never set up a feeder but I have had red flowers in my deck boxes that draw them right in. They are fun to watch.

You know what they say - give a monkey a camera & every once in a while even he will get a good shot

I shot this with a tripod mounted Canon 1DX & 70-200mm @ 200mm f5.6 1/1250 iso=5000

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

By the way - went out to dinner at a new (to us) bar / restaurant and they had 10 - 20 hummingbird feeders and a couple of regular bird feeders (and one I don't know what it was supposed to feed, a woodpecker?, it looked like it was filled with wood).

Only saw a few hummingbirds but a bunch of more common birds were at the regular feeder.

 

[Bestiarius]

By the way - went out to dinner at a new (to us) bar / restaurant and they had 10 - 20 hummingbird feeders and a couple of regular bird feeders (and one I don't know what it was supposed to feed, a woodpecker?, it looked like it was filled with wood).

Only saw a few hummingbirds but a bunch of more common birds were at the regular feeder.

Was probably a suet sandwich feeder. The suet is placed between two pieces of bark wood. - Woodpeckers can reach between the boards to get the suet. Birds without long tongues can't reach it.