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WHETHER YOU’RE AIMING FOR A WELCOMING RETURN OR TO ATTRACT NEW VISITORS, FOLLOW THESE TIPS TO CREATE A SAFE HAVEN

BY MONICA CARDOZA

When you offer hummingbirds a yard where they can thrive, they will likely come back to delight you with their entertaining antics year after year. The good news is that they require very little—just food, water and protection—and it’s easy to set your yard up in a way that helps hummingbirds flourish. OFFER SECURE PLACES TO LAND Hummingbirds hover, fly backward and dart straight ahead at speeds of 20 to 30 miles per hour—so it only makes sense that they would appreciate a spot to pause and reset. “Hummingbirds like to have a perch,” says Sandy Lockerman, a federally licensed bird bander in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who estimates that she’s banded some 4,000 hummingbirds in the past 12 years. “They’ll sit and make sure nobody else is coming, watch for bugs and rest,”…

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Birds & Blooms (Digital) - 1 Issue, June/July 2023

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