Right now, the hummingbird at your feeder is often a female running herself ragged. This is nesting season, and she's doing all of it alone.
She built a nest the size of a golf ball from plant down and spider silk, using the silk so the cup stretches as the chicks grow, then shingled the outside with lichen for camouflage.
After that she started hunting, because baby hummingbirds aren't raised on sugar water. They're raised on bugs.
Rutgers puts it at up to 2,000 insects and spiders a female may catch over a breeding season, mashed up and fed to her young for protein. Nectar is the fuel. Insects provide much of the protein and nutrients needed to raise chicks.
So if you want to help her this month, three things.
1. Plant native. Tubular red and orange flowers like coral honeysuckle, cardinal flower, and bee balm bring the nectar, and the native plants bring the small insects she needs for the chicks. Native plants generally support far more of the insects and spiders hummingbirds need than most exotic ornamentals.
2. Put the pesticide down. Spray the yard and you erase the protein her chicks run on, along with the spiders whose silk is holding the nest together.
3. If you keep a feeder, one part white sugar to four parts water, nothing else. No red dye, which does nothing for the bird. Never use honey, which can promote dangerous fungal and bacterial growth in feeders.
And one more thing: In June heat, that sugar water ferments fast, so empty it, scrub it in hot water, and refill every couple of days, not once a week.
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Hello Mr. Hunter Biden,
You're getting six-digit likes on every post lately. I don't have any hope to ratio you or whatever through traditional "Hello" means.
But for those uninitiated, those who are captivated by your fake-humble persona obviously PR-engineered to capture unsuspecting disaffected Republicans:
You are not some humility, witty guy turning over a new leaf. You are the ultimate proof of nepotism, everything that the so-called "Epstein Class" is supposed to represent.
Let me explain - off the top of my head.
You were a board member of USGLC. U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. The most powerful NGO that nobody's ever heard of. Last year, I documented in several threads, how Liz Schrayer, USGLC lead, took credit for ramming through a 90 billion dollar bill for Ukraine in 2024, even as @mattvanswol demonstrated that Western North Carolina got zero help in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene because FEMA threw up their hands and said they ran out of funds.
USGLC, arguably, is the most powerful NGO that nobody has ever heard of. It includes a bunch of corporations, a bunch of nonprofit leads, and ... for some magical reason, I documented, extensively, linked, that Liz Schrayer started pursuing you in 2012. During the Obama years, when you were Biden's son. Are you a former Secretary of State? No. Are you a CEO of a Fortune 500 company? No. That puts you below the average USGLC board member, by a good tier.
So what DID get you on USGLC? The only reason: that you were the son of a sitting Vice President known for corruption, and you yourself were known for corruption.
You are not "folksy." You are the worst of the worst of the elite. Most of the elite, at least, get their credentials through Georgetown/George Washington/Harvard Kennedy. You got yours purely on nepotism. Any photographs you have of yourself at motels is proof that you are so incompetent that you waste all your money, not that you come from humble beginnings. Because others like @MarcoPolo501c3 have thoroughly documented that you benefited a great deal from your nepotism.
You even tried to bait those in with saying you prefer to keep immigration "legal" - but we all know the trap that keeps illegal immgrants here: outlaw deportations, and make every immigrant case "asylum", and magically, everyone who might've been here illegally a few years ago is legal.
You may get 175K likes on your semi-subverting, PR-designed photographs. But those of us who know, know you're fake.
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@mluvleakyl@thistle_ki35141@POTUS I mean that is annoying. Saying it once or twice is fine, but he can’t hide behind that and just expect people to choose him because of it.