| Your yard and garden décor choices give you a | | | | their bounty you will see your fast feathered |
| tranquil and beautiful place to relax and enjoy | | | | friends dinning at your feeders. These artistic |
| nature. They also provide migrating songbirds, | | | | stained glass hummingbird feeders have a double |
| hummingbirds and even Monarch butterflies much | | | | duty in your garden, providing you with hours of |
| needed nourishment for their annual flight | | | | enjoyment watching those lovely little birds |
| southward. Some hummingbirds migrate to | | | | zooming about and helping the little hummers |
| Central America with favorite destination stops | | | | fatten up for their long migration south. Keep |
| being Panama and Mexico. Many will take a route | | | | your hummingbird feeders clean and full of fresh |
| over the Gulf of Mexico. The nonstop flight is a | | | | homemade nectar and they will be back again and |
| grueling trip that can take about 20 hours. How | | | | again as their cycle of life unfolds in your bountiful |
| does this little bird accomplish such a daunting | | | | garden of sweet delights. |
| task? They will almost double their body weight | | | | You can also put out decorative birdhouses, like |
| by stopping at gardens all across the country to | | | | the Lighthouse Birdhouse, to enhance your yard |
| sip nectar from flowers and hummingbird feeders | | | | and garden décor but the main function of |
| like the Ladybug Decor Glass Hummingbird Feeder. | | | | these garden décor birdhouses is to bring |
| If you are putting out hummingbird feeders | | | | indigenous cavity nesting birds into your garden. If |
| placement is important. To attract attention to | | | | you where wanting to house a variety of |
| your hummingbird feeders place them among | | | | different species in your unique birdhouses and all |
| flowers that hummingbirds like. The Goldenrod | | | | you seem to see are House Sparrows, there is a |
| flower is a favorite of hummers and grows wild | | | | good reason for that. Of all the songbirds in North |
| along the road side but can also provide color to | | | | America the House Sparrow in the most |
| any garden. The Begonia flower and the Petunia | | | | abundant and covers a larger area of the planet |
| flower are two more favorites for our fast | | | | than any other bird. They are very territorial and |
| feathered friends. When you first try this you'll | | | | their aggressive nesting behavior of smashing the |
| notice that the little hummers will be going for the | | | | eggs of other indigenous cavity nesting birds, to |
| flowers more than your feeders and you will be | | | | drive them away and take over their nest, has |
| saying to yourself, "This guy is nuts, the | | | | given them an unfavorable status with many |
| hummingbirds are attracted to the flowers not | | | | birding enthusiast. If you want to discourage the |
| my ladybug glass hummingbird feeder." There | | | | sparrow from nesting in your wood birdhouse you |
| are times when I would agree with you about the | | | | will have to keep an eye on the birdhouses and |
| nuts part, but not here. Hummingbirds prefer | | | | when a sparrow starts a nest you must remove |
| natural nectar to the homemade stuff you would | | | | it. This may take doing more than once but it will |
| be putting in your glass hummingbird feeders. So, | | | | discourage them over time. |
| they are around and as the blooms start to lose | | | | |