Seattle man helps hummingbirds with their frozen feeders:

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From TikTok user @sarahissorry

[dem4decades]

1. That's really nice thing to do, but why haven't those hummers gone south?

[gblady]

3. Ana's don't migrate from the NW

They stay here all year long. It was rough this past week of freezing temperatures, my friends and I trying various ways to keep the feeders unfrozen.

[dem4decades]

7. Thanks, didn't know that. We're hummerless from Oct thru April.

The Ruby throated high tail it out of here come cold weather, though I remember a story of one stuck in DC a few years ago and the efforts people made to make it safe. This story reminded me of that.

[The Jungle 1]

2. My wife feeds um.

When the feeders are empty they come to the kitchen window and stare at her.

[montanacowboy]

4. We brought our feeders

In at night that worked pretty well
You can buy heaters but they are pricey at Wild Birds

[RainCaster]

5. We wrap our feeders in Christmas lights

We use a small string of incandescent lights wrapped around the bottle and keep it on 24-7. It works well.

[Mme. Defarge]

6. Fabulous!

I spent all day on Christmas Eve and all of Christmas Day bringing my feeder inside to thaw it out next to a heat vent and taking it back outside again, treading oh so carefully over the ice. And was grateful I wasn’t spending Christmas trapped in an airport.