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10 tips to attracting hummingbirds
May 11, 2005 02:03 PM EST | Birding | Email to Friend
The hummingbirds are coming soon (if they haven't already returned to your backyard and garden). Here are my top ten things to do to attract (and keep) hummingbirds in your backyard.
Summarize the 10 tips:
1. Add a new native plant species to your garden.
2. Plan a continuous blooming schedule.
3. Deadhead your flowers to enhance blooming.
4. Tie an orange ribbon round the old oak tree
5. Repaint your plastic flowers; rehab your old feeders
6. Replace old feeders
7. Make snag perches for hummers
8. Add a mister to your yard
9. Don't remove those spider webs
10.Add more feeders in a clump!
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