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Wed 29 Jan, 2003 08:55 pm
I put out a hummingbird feeder and for weeks the only clients were Bananquits. The seem to have a bil slender enough to feed through the tiny holes. I also finally saw them feeding from the same flowers as the hummers. Finally today hummingbirds started coming at log last only to be driven off by the greedy little quits! Their defence gesture is to face down the hummer with open beak and the hummers do indeed seem to be intimidated. Whoever thought feeding hummingbirds would be so complicated!
Wow, that's really strange. We put out hummingbird feeders every year and have never had that problem.
gezzy, do you have banaquits up there?
I looked them up, they're pretty birds.
They (bananaquits) are common here and also on any caribbean island. If you've ever been to one you can be sure that you've been seen by a Bananaquit.
Littlek
I don't think we have any of those up here, but if we did I wouldn't recognize one because I haven't a clue as to what they look like. I'll have to do a search on them.
A Bananquit in Canada would be one lost little birdy!
LOL Pitter. I think you're right. I just looked them up and they are very pretty, but I don't think I'll ever see one up this way. We have pretty finch here that look similar to that bird though. When we first moved up here I think the thing that facinted me the most was seeing eagle's every day. We have a few families of them in the woods behind our house and in the summer we watch them fly out to the ocean out front and come back with a fish. Before we moved here from Massachusetts I had never seen an eagle.
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