We've had a snow storm recently and are still experiencing freezing temps at our house, which caused my hummingbird feeder to freeze again. I took it down a couple of days ago to thaw and change the food. It's the kind that sticks to the window so I can stalk them watch them eat.



When I went to put it back up, the suction cups 'failed' and I couldn't get it to stick again no matter what I tried. OK, no matter what the bearded eye-roller tried (I gave up because I didn't want to pull any more stitches out).

BER sat it on the patio table, about three feet away, until we could come up with another solution. I saw one of my hummingbirds sitting in a tree close-by and was worried that he was going to starve if we didn't put it back exactly where it was. I went into the sunroom and worried some more and then I saw him fly to the old feeding place and kind of hover there as if he was saying, "what the hell happened here?, where's my food?"

I started getting upset, but then he must have caught the feeder out of the corner of his eye and then flew straight to it and started eating.

While this is a good solution for now, I'm starting to obsess about the other hummingbirds and whether they'll be smart enough to find it.

Sometimes I think I take my job as the feeder of the entire neighborhood of birds a little too seriously.

In any case, I'll be shopping for a new hummingbird feeder that doesn't require suction cups. Hummingbird feeders- who knew they could be so exciting?