They have been going nuts the last few days @UncleTom’sCabin!

I wish I was fast enough to get some video...

They're a hoot to watch, aren't they?

My crop is a little light this year, I usually have 15-20 hanging around. Maybe 4-5 this year for some reason.

I haven't seen any hummingbirds lately but there has been a Brown Thrasher and a Mockingbird after my cat every time she goes outside. The Mockingbird gets hostile even if the cat is inside looking out the window.

I have a feeder in my front yard and one in my backyard. Those nectar battles get pretty heated, and I have to duck every now and then during their dog fighting.

I live in the Canyon Lake, Texas area, and so far, I've only seen our resident black-chinned. I've only been here a short time, and where I moved from, our black-chinned get run out by the rufous on their way back south. We'll see what happen here in the next couple of months.

OT: I used to only have house finches, grackles, house sparrows, Say's phoebes, curve-billed thrashers, brown-headed cowbirds, white-winged doves, Eurasion collared doves, mourning doves, Inca doves and starlings, but since I've moved, I now get painted buntings, northern cardinals, black-crested titmouse, Bewick's wrens, Carolina chickadees, Eastern phoebes, ash-throated flycatchers, golden-fronted woodpeckers, ladder woodpeckers, Woodhouse's scrub-jays, blue jays, mourning doves, white-winged doves, Inca doves, house finches and brown-headed cowbirds.

So far, I'm amazed to not have seen any house sparrows. A couple of strange visitors to my watering hole were a couple of black vultures. I guess they need some clean water to wash down a nice big heaping pile of carrion.

Within about a mile of my house, I've seen several other species, and most notable have been yellow-billed cuckoos. I still consider myself a wild bird/nature photographer, but I haven't taken my equipment out since I've moved here. I hope to get some good painted bunting images, but we will see since kayak fishing eats so much of my time.

I was parked way up on Blind 35 looking at a map when I heard a strange buzzing. I looked up from the map and a Hummingbird was hovering right in front of my face!
He flew out the truck window before I could react.

A few days ago, I was watering my potted plants & hanging baskets on my back porch (yes, even on the "wet" side of WA, we get dry summers). There was a hummingbird that flew directly in front of me and hovered. When I looked at him, he flew to the feeder on the far end of the porch, perched on it and looked at me. Then flew back to me, hovered looked at me, then back to the feeder. He did this about four times. He never fed from the feeder.....he wanted me to refill the feeder!

We didn’t have many this year, and then our neighbor enlightened us:

* 4 parts water boiled with 1 part sugar
* change every 2 days

Now, we are in the midst of hummingbird fighter pilot-ness.

Awesome creatures.

We have a resident hummingbird around in the springtime when the desert flowers bloom. This past spring, my 16 year old Lab, who is mostly blind and deaf, was apparently standing too close to one of the flowering plants, and the hummingbird flew right in front of him, then off to one side, then the other. This repeated 3 times, then the hummingbird flew up to a branch and chittered at my Lab, then repeated the performance. Of course, the dog was oblivious to the entire performance!

there's a lady in Yucaipa , Ca that has 5 feeders up,
they count between 15 and 25 birds , most days.
she has to fill all five feeders every evening

I put a feeder up for the first time this year. It's been up for about three weeks, no takers .

Guess I am not in a "high traffic" area.

It's more at my place this summer than the previous 5 years. We have 4 feeders up, they all look the same to me, so I can't really tell who is defending and who is attacking!

I have been seeing hummingbirds away from my home , when walking my dogs, not sure how much they range .

I put out feeders a couple of months ago thinking they would be coming by on the way north.

I saw one...

Last year around Sep-Nov they found my new feeders, I guess on the way south.

That hummingbird pool party above is so cute.

HK AG

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
I was parked way up on Blind 35 looking at a map when I heard a strange buzzing. I looked up from the map and a Hummingbird was hovering right in front of my face!
He flew out the truck window before I could react.

Were you wearing red?

Jelly, that hummingbird pool party clip was great!

We have them chasing each other and buzzing our heads too!

We like watching the hummingbirds. We don't feed them but the wife always has flowering plants around the deck so they have plenty to keep them occupied. As far a numbers go, this year seems about average.

Another reason I miss Arizona,

funniest thing I saw was ;

I had a 4 ft. dia, kiddie pool on a plastic patio table
just outside the sliding glass door with a fountain in the middle.

one day there were two hummingbirds out there ,
each was dragging there asses in the water in big circles.

they did that for 6 or so minutes.

have not seen them do that since