Hummingbirds:

[tblue37]

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[Stuart G]

1. K and R...Thanks for posting..

[AllaN01Bear]

2. saw this on youtube years ago, still love it . love the harmoney.

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3. The first video is a blackchin male...

In the second, I wish I had a closer look at the birds, but it looks like there are some Rufous (the birds with a brown back or tail), possibley some Broadtails (bright red throats), but I have to admit I've never seen a hummingbird with a yellow throat before.

I hope someone can enlighten me.

I love hummingbirds, have been feeding and learning about them for over 40 years. Right now we are at a campground at almost 7000 ft, and have feeders out. I have to admit, I'm disappointed in the number of birds we've seen. This is probably the least amount of hummers in well over 40 years at the same campground. We've seen one male Broadtale & one male Rofous.

I'm not sure if it's climate change of what, but I'm very concerned.

[Walleye]

4. I've been putting out feeders every year for at least 10 years

I am always delighted when they show up in April. Pretty good activity here this year. At least three females and one male. My friend lives in New Mexico she says she has plenty of them this year maybe not as many years some years. In Delaware we get the ruby throats from April the end of September. One very rare occasion, a Rufous showed up in 2016 and stay two weeks in December. I had just been too lazy to bring my feeders in.

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5. We spend most winters in Arizona from Scenic (Just 4 miles east of Mesquite Nevada)...

all the way to Tucson, further south & further east.

One of our favorite campgrounds (We're full-time RV'ers) is Katherine's Landing in Bullhead City. There are hummingbirds there year around, but really concentrated during the winter months.

We have feeders that have suction cups that stick to our windows of our RV. We put one on each side, and take great delight in watching the "humming bird wars" that are a daily occurrence. We've even had them fly under the MH while being chased, or chasing another bird.

They have been described as "Jewels of the sky"...I will never argue that description.

Thanks for the reply.

[Walleye]

6. That sounds wonderful. Hummingbird feeders on your RV. Cool

I saw my first hummingbird back in our woods when I was about five. It came right up to my face and hovered. Bright red throat. I have considered them my spirit animals ever since. Happy trails

[electric_blue68]

7. I love these individual hummer feeders!

Even when I've been around flowers that are deliberately planted in parks and gardens for hummers I've almost never seen any!
And except for these past 2 summers (covid) I'm often in the parks, and gardens starting in late April through mid October.

It doesn't help that in the NE there's only one species - the (beautiful) Ruby-throated hummer.

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8. I wish we had more humming birds here in MA.

This year, we've only seen one tiny bird (we usually have at least two). He seems happy to get his nectar from our flowers and also from the feeder.

I hope that's not a bad sign.