Posts by Elizabeth Donaldson

While I was watching many of my hummingbirds fill their bellies just before nightfall, I was wondering how I could help them find the food they needed other than sugar water and further wondered what...

Every year I see hummingbirds return to my backyard and sometimes I think I remember some of the returning hummingbirds from previous years, so I did some research to see if I was right. This...

When I first began making homemade hummingbird sugar water for my feeders, I followed the instructions I found on the internet. Over time, I discovered I was not making it correctly because some...

For years, everything I read about hummingbirds’ ability to smell told me hummingbirds could not smell. I found that strange since other bird species were known to have a sense of smell; why not...

I recently purchased a red glass hummingbird feeder and was amazed at my hummingbirds’ attraction to it. They seemed to prefer it to the other clear feeders with red components. I moved it around...

Hummingbirds have feathers that range from very tiny to very large by comparison. This article takes a deep dive into the different types of feathers found on a hummingbird and how they differ...