Aussie Finch Forum

Tintola wrote:We use the ones with red bases as an attractant to the Honey-eaters. Yellow or orange could also be used.

Purple, green, blue, what ever colour they come in, mine will take from them all.

Anybody want to buy about twenty 'not-red' ones - $20 plus postage. I ordered red and recieved none.

Will the Scarlet Honeyeaters take only small flying insects or will they have a go at moths and the like ? Will they take livefood from a bowl (termites ) or does it have to be flying ?

Mine take mothes & flies, & some of them will take termites. It's possible that they all do, but I have only seen some of my younger birds take termites.

SamDavis wrote:I really have no experience but I noticed when in California last year that many shops sold hummingbird feeders and many people had them up in their backyards.
Here's a link to the sort of thing they used - hummer feeders
Is this type of contraption suitable for Scarlet Honeyeaters?

At 150-500ml (and more) that's an awful lot of highly territorial honeyeaters you need in the aviary @ 30-40 ml per pair per day. You'd need large clutches with just 1 pair .

You can even buy "hummingbird mix", a "fine white powder you just mix with water". Given that all the internet recipes stress you should give them nothing but 1:4 white sugar to water mix, one wonders what's in the 680g tins that justifies $14.95 for two.