Sometimes at my home I'll leave my wire cage trap (hinged door) on the deck,
sitting on its projector stand outside a living room window, for several days
at a time. When I'm not actively trapping, I close the door and hang the feeder
from the wooden rod outside the trap, so birds can get used to being near a
trap without risk of getting caught with no one to remove them. This works
especially well during migrations, when every day brings new hummers that may
be wary of anything unfamiliar.
Lanny Chambers
Fenton, MO
On Oct 28, 2022, at 15:48, brainard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:Humband is a private forum restricted solely to licensed hummingbird banders.
However, ever since then, I hang the feeder *outside* the front of the trap
and allow the bird to come right in without even going under the door (I have
an older, hinged drop door instead of a vertically falling one). If a bird
seems particularly shy, I then place the feeder *just* inside the door and
allow it to come in under the hinged door. Then I just move the feeder back
into trapping position inside the feeder.
