September 2022 - Songbird Station

Bird Man Mel had a flurry of hummingbird activity in his backyard last week and captured some fantastic images. Check out his tips and tools that will bring Hummingbirds to your yard as they head south for the winter!

Bird Man Mel feeding a hummingbird with the Whimsy Wand

Having a hummingbird land on your Wand just inches from your face is truly a thrill! Hang it out with your other feeders and when you want to use it, take all your feeders down and hold the Wand in the same area. In minutes, you'll have a hummer land and get up close and personal with you.

Bird Man Mel & the Hummingbird Whimsy Wand

I love using our handmade copper hummingbird wand feeder this time of year. Birdman Mel

Hummer Rings & Trainer

I put my hummingbird rings in our plastic holder on the deck rail. The trick here is to place them in a plate that is deep enough that you can put water in it in the holder sits in the water. That keeps any ants on the deck from getting to your rings.

Now is absolutely the best and easiest time to hand feed hummingbirds with our Hummer Ring or Hand Feeding Copper Hummer Wand!

Bird Man Mel feeding a Hummingbird from a Hummer Ring

Feed Hummingbirds out of your hand. Use with any nectar, great for children and seniors.

Hummingbird Whimsy Wand

A couple quick tips on hand feeding hummingbirds. In this feeder I hook my copper Songbird Essentials hummingbird wand on my deck hook. That way my hummingbirds get used to feeding from it, then I sit down by it and they more quickly come to feed.

Now is absolutely the best and easiest time to hand feed hummingbirds with our Hummer Ring or Hand Feeding Copper Hummer Wand!

During our First Friday Bird Walk co-sponsored by Songbird Station with the Columbia Audubon Society, we had 19 attendees! We went to 3M Wetlands and traveled 1.34 miles. Although overcast skies turned to a nice hard rain 32 different taxa were reported. Below is the sighting count from this walk!

1 Wood Duck

1 Mourning Dove

1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

1 Great Blue Heron

4 Green Heron

3 Turkey Vulture

1 Cooper’s Hawk

2 Red-shouldered Hawk

2 Broad-winged Hawk

1 Barred Owl

4 Red-headed Woodpecker

2 Red-bellied Woodpecker

6 Downy Woodpecker

2 Pileated Woodpecker

3 Eastern Wood-Pewee

1 Empidonax sp.

1 Eastern Phoebe

2 Great Crested Flycatcher

3 Blue Jay

47 American Crow

8 Black-capped Chickadee

6 Tufted Titmouse

2 House Wren

8 Carolina Wren

1 Gray Catbird

1 American Robin

25 Cedar Waxwing

2 House Finch

6 American Goldfinch

1 American Redstart

15 Northern Cardinal

11 Indigo Bunting

Month: September 2022

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