After not a single hummingbird at the fifty years we lived at The Rice Paddy, we have quite a few here at the condo – and we’re on the second floor. There are at least three – sometimes four – flitting around the feeder most of the day, but getting a picture is just about impossible.
We are both amazed at how much these tiny creatures drink. I make up two cups of syrup every third day and they manage to guzzle down most of it. You can see at least one other feeder on the third-floor balcony across the street, and the lady who lives on the other side of this building has two feeders. They are tanking up for their trip south. They will fly from here – just north of Baltimore – to southern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, a distance of about 1,500 miles. They take about two weeks to make that journey!
Amazing, incredible, and mind blowing.
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