Pack a Hummingbird Feeder or Several.

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.

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

We feed them at home. Will try when camping. TY