They remember each flower they visit, and they know how long it will take the flower to refill with nectar so it can be fed from again. As hard as it may be to believe, these birds eat up to twelve times their body weight in nectar a day! They eat several meals throughout the day. Both their hearing and their vision are much better than human senses. Hummingbirds do not mate for life, and the male takes no part in sitting on the eggs or raising the babies. Females do all the work of hatching chicks.They have very weak feet, so they prefer to fly or just sit still.
Photo by Mateus Campos Felipe on Unsplash Here's a hummingbird perching on a branch. This means they will spend more of their life perching than doing anything else. The average hummingbird spends 10–15% of their time feeding and 75–80% sitting and digesting their food. They use up a lot of energy flying, so they spend a good portion of the day sitting somewhere and resting. Many people think that these birds spend all day flying around, but that isn't true. If you put up an artificial feeder and watch it closely, you may notice one hummingbird hanging around the feeder all the time and chasing off any other birds that try to drink from the feeder. As mentioned above, hummingbirds are quite territorial. In fact, I've sat and watched a hummingbird snatch a spider from its web! They often snatch brightly colored spiders like the Carolina Writing Spider from their webs and eat them. Nectar is a poor source of all of these things, so the birds can often be seen chasing down and catching bugs and spiders. This helps to fill their need for protein, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Most people think that hummingbirds only drink nectar, but this isn't true.
Hummingbirds are like bees in that both of them are able to use the sugar that is contained in the nectar. They know which flowers have the nectar with the highest sugar content and prefer to feed from those.
You need to check the feeder for drowned insects if you find them, wash out the feeder and replace the sugar water. You need to keep the feeder or feeders filled with sugar water, especially during the spring, summer, and fall. When you hang up hummingbird feeders, know that you are assuming a certain degree of responsibility. Stand there quietly, and you can watch the birds zipping about and eating your homemade sugar water. This tip is for your own benefit! If you hang the feeder right in front of a window, you can enjoy watching the birds come. Put your feeders up high enough that the birds won't have to worry about cats hunting them. Hummingbirds' eyes are sensitive to the color red because red flowers typically represent good food sources for them. It's best to purchase a red feeder or one that has prominent red features, like red caps, perches, feeding sites, etc.
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