{"id":6470,"date":"2014-01-15T03:49:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T10:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2013-12-16T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T23:22:39","slug":"the-first-hummingbird-feeder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/15\/the-first-hummingbird-feeder\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Hummingbird Feeder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Yrette by Rick Wright, Tours and Private Guiding, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/11313896983\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Yrette\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3723\/11313896983_b6017f6f60_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bottle, some sugar water, and something red: those are the ingredients, from Alaska to Trinidad&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/featured-news\/Hummingbird_haven-134011568.html\">Yerette<\/a> and beyond. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hummingbirdmarket.com\/hummingbird_articles\/origins_of_hummingbird_feeders.html\">We tend to think of hummingbird feeding as a newish phenomenon<\/a>, but get a load of this.<\/p>\n<p>On January 15, 1698, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Bullivant\">Benjamin Bullivant<\/a> wrote to the famous entomologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/index\/22\/101022041\/\">James Petiver<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/20\/236-247\/167.full.pdf+html\">miscellaneous news from New England<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Hum-bird I have shot with Sand, and had one some Weeks in my keeping. I put a Straw for a perch into a Venice Glass Tumbler, ty&#8217;d over the Mouth with a Paper, in which I cut holes for the Bird&#8217;s Bill (about as long and as small as a Taylor&#8217;s Needle) and laying the Glass on one Side, set a Drachm of Honey by it, which it soon scented, and with its long Tongue put forth beyond its Bill, fed daily; it muted [defecated] the Honey pure, and was a Prospect to many Comers; it flew away at last.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess what I&#8217;m going to be building next spring.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ruby-throated Hummingbird by Rick Wright, Tours and Private Guiding, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/7833219670\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ruby-throated Hummingbird\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7260\/7833219670_ae7d204e52_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bottle, some sugar water, and something red: those are the ingredients, from Alaska to Trinidad&#8217;s Yerette and beyond. We tend to think of hummingbird feeding as a newish phenomenon, but get a load of this. On January 15, 1698, Benjamin Bullivant wrote to the famous entomologist James Petiver with miscellaneous news from New England: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/15\/the-first-hummingbird-feeder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The First Hummingbird Feeder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6471,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions\/6471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}