Hummingbird Feeder Heated: Enhancing Your Backyard Birdwatching Experience
- Tips for keeping hummingbird feeders from freezing in cold weather
- Suggestions for bringing feeders indoors, using a dome, positioning the feeder to avoid cold winds, attaching hand warmers or heat tape
- Using a clamp-on shop light or a 125 Watt infra-red light bulb
- Placing holiday lights around the feeder
- Insulating with fabric
- Unobstructed access to feeding ports
- Only use electrical products and cords rated for exterior use
- The Hummer Hearth: a heated hummingbird feeder with a 7 watt bulb, easy to attach with adjustable hooks, inexpensive to operate
- The Hummers Heated Delight: a heated hummingbird feeder that feeds warm food, tested at temperatures as low as 1 °F
- The Hummingbird Heinie Warmer: uses waterproof outdoor decorative holiday lights, increases survival chances of hummingbirds in winter, attracts hummingbirds to feeder
- Using a heating pad or reptile terrarium heating device to prevent freezing
- Leaving feeders up to help hummingbirds overwinter in colder climates
- The use of a deep aluminum pan with a block of wood and a 4-watt night light on a timer to prevent freezing
- A heated hummingbird feeder that turns on at dusk and uses a 4-watt light to keep nectar from freezing
- Using a red bulb night light to attract birds before dawn
- Minimal cost of running heated feeders
- Caution to set up the feeder undercover