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a kennedy

(29,691 posts)
Sun May 15, 2022, 04:41 PM May 2022

Yippie, my hummers are back......have seen a few around just got the feeder up today......

So funny, was out hanging it, and here comes my first customer!!!!!!! Barely got the feeder hung and it was there drinking, it was about 6 inches from me. Love the hummers…….I am assuming it was a female, no red around her neck, or is it just a different breed with no red around their neck??

Holy moly, thousands of hummers……. https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/hummingbird.html

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Walleye

(31,034 posts)
1. Where are you located? Mine showed up a couple of weeks ago
Sun May 15, 2022, 04:44 PM
May 2022

A male, he was quite active last Sunday but I haven’t seen him all week I have seen a female just a couple of times I hope they come back soon I’m missing them

Walleye

(31,034 posts)
3. Where are you located? Mine showed up a couple of weeks ago
Sun May 15, 2022, 04:46 PM
May 2022

A male, he was quite active last Sunday but I haven’t seen him all week I have seen a female just a couple of times I hope they come back soon I am missing them.

OAITW r.2.0

(24,530 posts)
7. Put mine up 3 days ago...within 15 minutes, I had the first one show up.
Sun May 15, 2022, 04:55 PM
May 2022

I've seen 3 at the feeder at a single point, so I guess they have locked on to the location.

RockRaven

(14,982 posts)
9. We are fortunate to have them year-round (Anna's Hummingbird) but they are a bit territorial
Sun May 15, 2022, 05:05 PM
May 2022

amongst each other so our feeders and flowers are often-visited but never crowded. Usually we see one at a time, sometimes two, very rarely three (usually involves one being chased away), and never four.

a kennedy

(29,691 posts)
12. I know, we thought we were so honored last year to have 3 flying and drinking at the same time.
Sun May 15, 2022, 05:56 PM
May 2022

We always went to a restaurant in Southern MN that had almost 25 hummer feeders located around their restaurant, ya know hanging from the roof, and I swear at each feeder they’d have 4, 5, and sometimes 6 hummers at each feeder. 😳 😳 😳 This place is no longer in service, pandemic killed them…….so sad, and damn we loved going there just to see all the hummers. Insane amount of birds……..

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