Hope it works, the Anna’s hummingbird in Hines is still alive after -4 degrees!
And below zero for 9 hours. Several other nights below 0. Friday will be the
next extreme cold temperature test at -3. Not above freezing for about a week
now with wind and snow. And wind chills of -14! She is a tough little lady,
“Christmas Anna’s”.
We hope it will be our first bird of 2022 at 7am!
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=boi&sid=KBNO&num=72&raw=0
Winter Cheers,
Rick Vetter
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On Dec 28, 2021, at 3:06 PM, Don Powers <dpowers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As a physiologist who has studied hummers for 40+ years I agree with Sheri’s
assessment of surgar concentration for feeder solutions. Frankly, I get so
many people who ask me why their neighbors have hummers and they do not. My
typical response is that most people make their feeder solutions 4:1, but if
they startt making theirs 3:1 they will no longer be short of birds. Works
most of the time. The other advantage of a 3:1 solution is that it will
depress the freezing point of the solution a bit.
Cheers,
Don
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On Dec 28, 2021, at 12:36 PM, Joel Geier <clearwater@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Tom and all,
Rather than re-post the entire thing, here's a link to the original posting
by Linda Fink (forwarding a message from Lisa Millbank and Don Boucher on
the mid-valley nature list:
https://www.freelists.org/post/obol/Fwd-MidValleyNature6358-Cold-weather-and-birds
