I read somewhere that the red dye used to color the (boiled) sugar water might be harmful to hummingbirds (although I doubt it as it’s widely used with no apparent ill effects…). As shown in the pic, I use plain uncolored sugar water - just in case, and the hummers still flock to it like crazy.
This post is dedicated to the Texas Hill Country’s “Hummingbird Man“ (RSF).
Native American Legends and Mythology
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A Mayan legend says the hummingbird is actually the sun in disguise, and he is trying to court a beautiful woman, who is the moon.
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To many of the Pueblo the hummingbird is a tobacco bird. In one myth Hummingbird gets smoke from Caterpillar, the guardian of the tobacco plant. Hummingbird brings smoke to the shamans so they can purify the earth.
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There is another Aztec legend which says the god of music and poetry took the form of a hummingbird and descended into the underworld to make love with a goddess, who then gave birth to the first flower.
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The Pueblo Indians have hummingbird dances and use hummingbird feathers in rituals to bring rain. Pueblo shamans use hummingbirds as couriers to send gifts to the Great Mother who lives beneath the earth.
