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2naSalit

(86,824 posts)
1. I hardly ever see...
Mon Sep 11, 2023, 07:31 AM
Sep 2023

Hummingbirds at all anymore. I think it's been about two or three years since I've seen even one. I have flowers all around the place and out around three trees and there are about six different pollinators around all the time. I walk through a small swarm of them at the end of the walkway on my way to the car every day.



Irish_Dem

(47,500 posts)
3. That is what happened at my hummy feeder.
Mon Sep 11, 2023, 07:40 AM
Sep 2023

The bees/wasps, whatever they were, kept chasing the hummies away.
I tried to get the bees off the feeder but they were very persistent.

Irish_Dem

(47,500 posts)
8. I know, I was looking for them all day yesterday.
Mon Sep 11, 2023, 08:10 AM
Sep 2023

The feeder is right by the window were I sit.

I guess I was expecting them to say goodbye or leave me a nice little thank you note.
Not just depart suddenly.

Walleye

(31,069 posts)
9. I was sitting by the window yesterday watching and the female actually came up
Mon Sep 11, 2023, 08:12 AM
Sep 2023

She stopped inches from my face and Hubbard for a few seconds. I’ve often thought they come up to say goodbye and hello. There was no doubt she’s looking right at me

Irish_Dem

(47,500 posts)
10. Yes mine do this as well.
Mon Sep 11, 2023, 08:20 AM
Sep 2023

They come right up to the window and look at me.
They are suspended in midair hovering right in front of me.

I always think they are curious, like who is this person.
Why are they near my food supply.
Maybe I need to chase them away.
Or maybe they are just saying hi.

dem4decades

(11,306 posts)
5. 2 feeders, 8 cigar plants, a shrimp plant, 2 cardinal flowers and a few more plants, there's hummers
Mon Sep 11, 2023, 07:49 AM
Sep 2023

everywhere. This is the home stretch, in three weeks they'll be gone and we'll be sad.

Walleye

(31,069 posts)
7. We had a successful nesting season here.I know they have to leave, but I'll miss them
Mon Sep 11, 2023, 08:06 AM
Sep 2023

They were really hitting the flowers yesterday

Walleye

(31,069 posts)
12. Yep. Hoping we're all still here, the male usually shows up for me the last week in April
Mon Sep 11, 2023, 11:55 AM
Sep 2023

The females came about a week or 10 days later this year

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