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Birders

rhett o rick

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3. Our Anna's hummingbirds stay thru the winter in Washington the State.

Reply to Phentex (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 03:20 PM

Jun 2016

Lately our winters have been warm but a couple of years ago we had a very cold spell and the nectar would freeze after a few hours. I got up at dawn and tried to get an unfrozen feeder up for them but one morning I could see one of the birds trying to get the frozen nectar. I hurried out there knowing he probably didn't have much time after going thru the night. He perched on a bush about 3 feet away until I was done replacing the nectar. I had two feeders that I rotated every couple of hours, thawing one while the other was out there.

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