THE THREAD | On feeding hummingbirds and misquoting Churchill
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As I've prepared our backyard for winter this week, I poured new seed into the songbird feeders, and I also took down the hummingbird feeder. Before packing it away, I unscrewed the jar from the feeder port to dump out the remaining nectar. Dozens of dead ants spilled out of the jar. Apparently at some point this summer the ants had crawled up the post, slipped inside the nectar ports, and drank themselves to death. Their corpses spoiled the nectar.
THE THREAD | On feeding hummingbirds and misquoting Churchill
THE THREAD | On feeding hummingbirds and…
THE THREAD | On feeding hummingbirds and misquoting Churchill
As I've prepared our backyard for winter this week, I poured new seed into the songbird feeders, and I also took down the hummingbird feeder. Before packing it away, I unscrewed the jar from the feeder port to dump out the remaining nectar. Dozens of dead ants spilled out of the jar. Apparently at some point this summer the ants had crawled up the post, slipped inside the nectar ports, and drank themselves to death. Their corpses spoiled the nectar.