Re: Hummingbirds.

Post #171,175 by a6l6e6x 8/27/04 12:37:44 AM Reply	Re: Hummingbirds. I know what you mean about the territorial fights by the feeder. The silly feeder has four perches by the pseudo flowers. I have never seen more than one bird on the feeder. Not even a male/female pair. Big contrast with cardinals where you will see a male/female pair on the feeder and indeed the male passing a sunflower seed to the female. Our hummingbird feeder is about a foot from the kitchen window and they will occasionally hover and peer into the window. That's cute. Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #171,178 by Nightowl 8/27/04 12:46:29 AM 8/27/04 12:47:11 AM Reply	Re: Hummingbirds. John can't stand hummingbirds, and has never told me why. Maybe they attacked him or scared him as a child? Who knows. My cardinals seem to be less picky. They love to eat seeds off my patio and off the ground below the feeder. I can't put them on the patio for awhile, hmmmm unless, what if I put them in the shallow tray, and put them there, think they would eat them? Then I could clean up the mess easier, and Health Dept wouldn't come complain. Nightowl >8# Edit: Oh, and DeSitter, my absolute faves are the Black-Capped Chickadees. They are so cute and so fast! "A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -- Robert Hughes, Australian Art Critic, Writer Edited by Nightowl Aug. 27, 2004, 12:47:11 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #171,269 by jb4 8/27/04 1:28:00 PM Reply	Re: Cardinals The cardinals here eat right out of the feeder...I don't know what's wrong with yours (mebbe its the St. Louis water?) But of course our cardinals would have better manners... they're [image\|http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/mlb/images/team_logos/50x50/chc.gif\|\|Cubs\|\|] fans! ;-\ufffd jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #171,276 by Nightowl 8/27/04 1:41:53 PM Reply	Re: Cardinals (new thread) Created as new thread #171275 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=171275\|Re: Cardinals] "A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -- Robert Hughes, Australian Art Critic, Writer
Post #171,179 by deSitter 8/27/04 12:48:12 AM Reply	Re: Hummingbirds. The cardinals do show specie-al spirit. I saw six (!) on the porch the other day, happily taking turns knocking all the seed out of the big feeder. They land like a 747 on a bike path and take off at full throttle. The deck under the feeder is constantly covered with seeds. Their cousins the purple finches are not quite as clumsy, and are even more bound to each other. The sparrows are very tame, unafraid of people or cats. The cats in turn seem to take no interest at all in them, even though the sparrows never show any stealth or wariness. -drl

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