Digging Up Trouble
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It's important to keep a mister, dripper, or shallow bird bath near your hummingbird garden so the hummers can bathe and keep hydrated. Did you know hummingbirds drink eight times their body weight a day?
Hummingbirds won't use houses—they nest in trees—so don't bother buying one. These birds spend eighty percent of their time resting, so make sure they have perches near their food source. Twigs, branches, fences, clotheslines, or even nearby trees will provide the rest your hummers will need.
Remember to space your plants to accommodate fluttering wings, which can beat twenty to two hundred times per second. Research, plant, and sit back and enjoy your hummingbird garden year after year.
Best wishes for happy gardening!
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to my agent, Jacky Sach, for all that you do, and to Sarah Durand, for continuing to believe in Nina . . . and in me.
Great big thanks to Laura Bradford, Shelley Galloway, Hilda Lindner-Knepp, Cathy Liggett, and Julie Stone, for being the best writing buddies a girl could have.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
HEATHER WEBBER writes mysteries in between running her three children to and from various sporting and school events, actively avoiding housework, and wishing someone would give her backyard a Taken by Surprise makeover. This native of Massachusetts was uprooted and transplanted to a little cranny of southwest Ohio shortly after marrying her high school sweetheart. She loves to hear from readers and can be reached through her website at www.heatherwebber.com.
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Copyright
Digging Up Trouble. Copyright © 2006 by Heather Webber.
eBook Reader October 2007
ISBN 978-0-06-156002-6
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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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