http://www.drjbs.com/wordpress For the health, protection and convenience of Hummingbirds Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:59:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About this time every year, we (in Kentucky and North Carolina ... some migratory states) can expect to see newspaper articles and e-mails regarding hummingbirds that weren't able to make the southward migration for some reason. Too small, too old, perhaps injured or otherwise infirm, there is usually a story ... http://www.drjbs.com/wordpress/2008/11/23/any-hummingbird-stragglers/ Everything is happening early this year -- Mardi Gras, Easter, Spring Break -- so how does that affect our expectations of hummingbird migration? This is a good time to remind everyone to go to the top spot for hummingbird migration data. Be sure to make the site even more valuable by contributing your ... http://www.drjbs.com/wordpress/2008/03/22/hummingbird-migration-2008/ Good question! Look around, through your favorite hummingbird research literature, and you will probably find most researchers willing to say that hummingbirds have little or no sense of smell (olfactory sense), or that any evidence (supporting or contradicting their olfactory sense) is completely inconclusive at best. At this risk of ruffling feathers, ... http://www.drjbs.com/wordpress/2008/02/16/do-hummingbirds-have-a-sense-of-smell/ There are still those winter stragglers in North Carolina. The following is from Dwayne Martin, Catawba County Park Ranger, regarding recent hummingbird banding activity in North Carolina.   Today,1-23-08, I had a five hummingbird day in and around Charlotte. > Four of them I was able to catch and one was seen, but ... http://www.drjbs.com/wordpress/2008/01/26/winter-hummingbird-banding-in-north-carolina/ Dear Feeders, It has been a crazy, exciting, frustrating, enlightening, encouraging, discouraging, thankful and finally successful past two months! Before the explanation -- a word of general thanks. Our customers stuck with us while they waited for up to two months for their hummingbird feeders. We expected many, many, many more to ... http://www.drjbs.com/wordpress/2007/11/24/dr-jbs-hummingbird-feeders-back-in-business/ At Dr. JB's, we are still speechless. After this article was published ... http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/250423.html ... we received nearly 900 orders for the Clean Feeder in one weekend. Then we thought the surge would settle down, but it appears now that papers all over the country are picking up the story and publishing it. ... http://www.drjbs.com/wordpress/2007/09/01/an-unbelievable-response-to-the-dr-jb-story/ Feeders, I should be writing about the pre-migratory August feeding frenzy, which is a joy to behold and in full swing, but I received a link that features more of a spring-time activity -- the birth of hummers. This is one amazing video. Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG59PaCiiDg (if the above line does not appear as ... http://www.drjbs.com/wordpress/2007/08/19/amazing-video-of-hummingbirds-birth/ Greetings Feeders! This is my favorite site for tracking the migration of the hummers: http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html Lanny does us a great service in providing this excellent self-reporting tool for tracking the coming of the hummingbirds. According to this map, they're in Kentucky, but I haven't seen ours yet. Here's the question I have at ... http://www.drjbs.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/where-do-they-nest-the-best/ Feeders, A new friend in Cape Town, South Africa happened upon our website; he was searching for a durable hummingbird feeder to place in his father's retirement village. We then began a series of e-mail discussions about feeders and hummingbirds. After sharing these conversations with Dad (Dr. JB), he was amazed -- ... http://www.drjbs.com/wordpress/2007/03/13/suikerbekkie-by-another-name-a-hummingbird/ Fellow Feeders, This has certainly been a winter to give more credibility to global warming. Not that Hurricane Katrina didn't already give us a wake-up call. With the changes in weather patterns becoming more noticeable to us humans, I'm curious about what the hummers might think, and how they might be ... http://www.drjbs.com/wordpress/2007/02/03/hummers-warming-to-climate-change/