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Help The Hummingbirds

I have a shrub planted for hummingbirds: hummingbird bush (Hamelia patens). I usually have other flowering plants that hummingbirds love, but due to the drought, most of them have either died or not doing too well.
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Team Discovery

reply to SandShark
I've got four feeders and they require refilling at least twice daily. This far north, I still have several stragglers around but the bulk have already begun their migration. In the next week or so, the feeders will be all quiet until next summer. I don't care much for feeding birds but I sure do enjoy Hummingbirds.

I feed wild birds and grow flowers and shrubs that the hummingbirds love. Sometimes, I get very interesting wild birds passing though, like the green parrots.
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Team Discovery

I haven't had any green parrots. Mostly bluejays, cardinals and woodpeckers.

Steve, I get wild green parrots for a few days each year. Bluejays, cardinals, small brownish birds (don't know their names), red-winged blackbirds, and a few others. Doves and pigeons feed on the food that the others spill onto the ground. Haven't seen a woodpecker around here in a very long time. I have have mockingbirds, but they like to eat cat food!
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Team Discovery