Hummingbirds

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I hear them chirp and squawk all the time now.

The male hummer.

5 hummers are here all the time now, 1 of them is the male.

 

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We have lots of them around the last 2 years here. I think they come back to the same place year after year also. DW is ready in early spring with the feeders cleaned and ready to go. We think that you have to have the stuff out when they first show up in spring or they will move on. Right now the small babies are out buzzing all around and chasing each other. They have no fear of people they will hover about 6” from your face to check you out. I also think that those babies will come back year after year also, so you need to keep increasing your feeder supply. Happy to hear you are starting your own colony.

 

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Sad pics.
Found a dead hummer.

Went out to watch the barnswallows zoom and a young one sat on the fence, watching me. Noticed a foot away, a hummer hanging off the fence, dead.

Had to get pics, as you never think you'd get this close to one, dead or alive. Plus, a bit educational to find out how tiny and light they really are.

They've recently grown to at least 5 of them, arguing over the feeder. I added a second further away to limit their fighting. Idk if this one was hurt or old or had something else going on. Feeders cleaned and replaced w/sugar water every 2-3 days.

That little ruffle on its back is where the tail meets the body. So very tiny!

 

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Sad pics.
Found a dead hummer.

Went out to watch the barnswallows zoom and a young one sat on the fence, watching me. Noticed a foot away, a hummer hanging off the fence, dead.

Had to get pics, as you never think you'd get this close to one, dead or alive. Plus, a bit educational to find out how tiny and light they really are.

They've recently grown to at least 5 of them, arguing over the feeder. I added a second further away to limit their fighting. Idk if this one was hurt or old or had something else going on. Feeders cleaned and replaced w/sugar water every 2-3 days.

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do you have any plain water around for them that they can use? it would be interesting to see if on really hot days if they do use it.

they can fight just like many other creatures, they can also die of old age, it's so hard to know for sure at our level of sight and understanding unless you were an expert with the right equipment and ways to test.

i was just thinking a short while ago that every creature around us lives just as intensely at times as we do, but also surely has their times of not so intense. the ebb and flow of life. we're all soaking in it... until we're not...

That little ruffle on its back is where the tail meets the body. So very tiny!

yes so very tiny and living on the edge too as they have such high metabolisms at times.

 

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do you have any plain water around for them that they can use? it would be interesting to see if on really hot days if they do use it.

they can fight just like many other creatures, they can also die of old age, it's so hard to know for sure at our level of sight and understanding unless you were an expert with the right equipment and ways to test.

i was just thinking a short while ago that every creature around us lives just as intensely at times as we do, but also surely has their times of not so intense. the ebb and flow of life. we're all soaking in it... until we're not...




yes so very tiny and living on the edge too as they have such high metabolisms at times.

Tons of natural waterways, ponds and troughs.