{"id":755,"date":"2007-03-29T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T23:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2007\/03\/29\/verdins-and-hummingbird-feeders\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T16:29:06","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T23:29:06","slug":"verdins-and-hummingbird-feeders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2007\/03\/29\/verdins-and-hummingbird-feeders\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdins and Hummingbird Feeders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2007\/02\/01\/verdin\/\">Verdins (Auriparus flaviceps)<\/a> are frequent visitors to hummingbird feeders here in the Sonoran Desert. These tiny birds have a real love for sweet sugar water, and I see them at my Tucson hummingbird feeders several times a day. From what I have observed, Verdins will visit just about every different style and type of hummingbird feeder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2007\/March\/Verdin-feeder-1.jpg\" alt=\"Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) at a hummingbird feeder\" title=\"Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) at a hummingbird feeder\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even though they can&#8217;t hover like hummingbirds, Verdins will still happily visit perch-less hummingbird feeders that keep most other larger, nectar-loving birds like Orioles, House Finches and others away. The Verdins will briefly flutter in front of the perch-less hummingbird feeders and then grasp onto the small edges around the nectar holes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2007\/March\/Verdin-feeder-2.jpg\" alt=\"Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) at a hummingbird feeder\" title=\"Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) at a hummingbird feeder\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, these perch-less, egg-shaped hummingbird feeders don&#8217;t always keep the greedy, sugar water-spilling <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/09\/27\/gila-woodpeckers\/\">Gila Woodpeckers<\/a> away, but unlike Verdins, woodpeckers don&#8217;t like these perch-less feeders as well as other styles of hummingbird feeder. Fortunately, the tiny Verdins are light and dainty and don&#8217;t make a mess with the sugar water like the larger, heavier woodpeckers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verdins (Auriparus flaviceps) are frequent visitors to hummingbird feeders here in the Sonoran Desert. These tiny birds have a real love for sweet sugar water, and I see them at my Tucson hummingbird feeders several times a day. From what I have observed, Verdins will visit just about every different style and type of hummingbird&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2007\/03\/29\/verdins-and-hummingbird-feeders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}