Please lmk if not allowed - but thought you would all appreciate
Please lmk if not allowed - but thought you would all appreciate
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12609613
Birds
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Spent my whole adult life saying I didn't give a shit about birds. Yeah.
- When I lived in Chicago 20 years ago, and their bodies were littering the streets from West Nile virus, I noticed. I noticed the lack of birds in the sky. Seems no one else did.
- I now have 3 different types of feeders and a birdhouse.
- Got my childhood treasures back, uh, there's a lot of antique bird figurines. And I used to collect owls.
- Saw a pileated woodpecker for the first time at camp in December. NEAT! Got a couple of feeders and started learning to make suet.
- Been rolling my own hummingbird food for years.
But I'm not really into birds.
What do you do for hummingbird food? I'm trying to attract them to my apartment's roof garden. I see them up there once or twice a year so I know they get this high up but I want more
You can make hummingbird nectar at home. I think it’s 4:1 water to sugar, let it cool after boiling to dissolve and fill up a feeder. Double check the ratio but I used to get them at my 21st floor apartment. Good luck, they are my favorites!
Plant a little salvia and place feeders near. mine used to draw them in like cats to catnip.
Those pileated woodpeckers are so big! Like the size of a chicken, they're so cool.