Feeding birds out of your hand - GIF and photos

[Jon]

I saw this hummingbird mega-feeding GIF, and was reminded of a trick someone showed me to get hummingbirds to land in your hand.



It works well with this type of multi-hummingbird feeder. You just put your fingers on the edge of the feeder, and they land on your hand. Worked the first time for me. Wash your hands after, bird foot is gross.



Hummingbirds are pretty bold though. How to get other kinds of birds to land in your hand? There are various ways, but here's the coolest:



This is Bill Bird-In-Hand, a cardboard bird feeder man. Easy to make yourself, but also commercially available. I've never used it, but there's enough chatter about it (including a book) that I believe it works.






Previously:

Wooden hummingbird model - GIF

[mklotz]

It's hard to believe but there is a species of hummingbird that migrates north to south across the Caribbean every year. They congregate on the south coast of the US to "tank up" before setting out. Several groups of bird lovers set up these multiple feeding stations to help them take on the calories they're going to need.

Of course, if you really want to watch them feeding close-up, you need one of these...

[Jon]

[Frank S]

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My wife would like to see some humming birds come ot this part of the country She used to keep some feeders out hoping to see some but someone told here that in all they ears they have lived here they have never seen a single humming bird. Me the only birds I watch for are of the big variety flying overhead if I see 1 start making dives for the chickens, puppies or cats I'm going to put them on the endangered species list. We have this 1 huge owl fly over once in a while but he don't pay the chickens any mind I did see him carrying off a snake once, and any bird that will carry off snakes gets my vote.