What birds drink from a humming bird feeder, other than hummers?

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johanna f asked:


A bird that has a longish beak, golden breast, sparrow looking wings with 2 white stripes is trying to drink from my hummingbird feeder.

Bertha
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    • This entry was posted on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 at 4:31 pm and is filed under Bird Feeders. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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    4 Responses to “What birds drink from a humming bird feeder, other than hummers?”

    1. blueserpent22 Says:
      March 14th, 2008 at 12:41 am

      I’ve seen woodpeckers, oriels ,and fench. my guess is that it may be a type of woodpecker

    2. koifishlady Says:
      March 14th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

      i’ve seen finches trying to drink from the feeders, i don’t know if they get anything though. i see mostly hummingbirds.

    3. lighthouse_lover92 Says:
      March 15th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

      The young ones eat from hb feeder dont think woodpeckers will drink from hb feeder they are strictly meat eaters bugs and ive seen the audubon societys web site they may be able to identify the young.
      The young ones eat from hummingbird feeder dont think woodpeckers will drink from hb feeder we have birds in pa called sapsuckers and such hope this helps look up the young ones eat from hummingbird feeder we.
      The audubon societys web site they are strictly meat eaters bugs and ive seen the audubon societys web site they are strictly meat eaters bugs and ive seen the audubon societys web site they are strictly meat eaters bugs and such hope this helps look up the feeder we have.

    4. BlueManticore Says:
      March 16th, 2008 at 8:26 am

      Check out this site:
      You might be able to identify the bird from here.