Ripe fruit on your feeders can attract small insects, and these nectar-hungry birds may also enjoy the fruit juices ...

Hummingbirds ... allow the nectar to last longer. Nectar can be bought at the store or made easily at home by mixing and boiling four parts water with one part sugar. The feeder should be changed ...

If a raccoon can figure out how to knock over your hummingbird feeder, it certainly will send it flying to the ground ...

O'Cain said keeping the hummingbird feeders filled with fresh, clean nectar is essential to keeping the hummingbirds ... Dean Hensley is the news editor for the Hendersonville Times-News. Email him ...

Really? How can we harm hummingbirds by feeding them? Probably the most harmful practice? Using red dye in the nectar mix. According to Cornell Lab of Ornithology, this nation’s premier bird ...

That means hummingbirds are on the move. Known for their long, nectar ... feeding hummingbirds: Empty and clean the filter once a week in cold weather, twice a week in hot weather Put the feeder ...

Colombian researcher Mónica Ramírez Burbano turned a fascination with looking at hummingbirds into a project to look at how these birds interact with the plants they feed on. Ramirez ...

There are more than 350 different species of hummingbirds ... They drink nectar from flowers and sugar water from feeders. They also sip tree sap and eat small insects, when flowers are hard ...

O'Cain said keeping the hummingbird feeders filled with fresh, clean nectar is essential to keeping ... Email him with tips, questions and comments at DHensley@gannett.com. Please help support ...