Yep, each sighting from here on out is special! I still have daily visitors, but I'd say I'm at about 10% of the activity from a month ago. Mine will be gone this week and then I think I'll have a week of seeing migrators and then done. Think my last one the last 2 year has been around October 15 and looking like that again this year!
Hummingbirds?
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We did have one female visit today on her way down to see you. Gone by dinner time. Have you noticed any difference in numbers caused by Helene?
Not sure I can really say, I was traveling this weekend and not really able to watch my feeders. I've definitely had more depart but still have 2 or 3 at each feeder that are here regularly and I see a bird feeding every couple of minutes.
Time to blow the dust off this thread and our feeders, down in the Carolinas anyway! I'm in a HB FB group and someone in Charlotte saw one at their feeder yesterday! Way early, but March sightings aren't abnormal. I usually see my first around the Masters, but I freshened the nectar and put them out yesterday just in case!
I have been spending a bunch of time in California over the last 3 months and have enjoyed watching the hummingbirds.
Unfortunately, the neighbor behind my FiL's house has decided to cut down five huge eucalyptus trees that attract them like a magnet. I'm curious to see how that affects the traffic at the feeder.
Unfortunately, the neighbor behind my FiL's house has decided to cut down five huge eucalyptus trees that attract them like a magnet. I'm curious to see how that affects the traffic at the feeder.
Overall, I think the western birds are more fun to watch. They don't seem as aggressive as the Ruby Throats. They still battle a bit, but oftentimes I'll see several (or more than several) at a feeder at once. That's a rarity for mine. I might see a couple at the same feeder a few times a year, while it's the norm out west in my limited experience.
I’ve been to a couple places that attract a huge amount of hummingbirds. The dessert museum in Tucson and I think my wife and I went somewhere in Costa Rica with tons of nectar feeders and where they will land on the top of your hand. It’s been a long time since we made that trip. Any other places closer to Indy where you can have a similar experience?
Get your feeders out early and leave them out later in the year. You'll be able to hand feed them. Although the last couple of years have been down numbers around here.
Yep in Brown County a couple miles outside Nashville. By July they will literally be inches from your face when you stand underneath the feeder tree. If you’re lucky you can hold a finger feeder and they’ll feed right out of your hand but won’t land on your hand. Hopefully we will get more back. Each year since ‘21 we’ve seen an increase in numbers. Last year we were figuring around 200 give or take.
There's a "pottery trail" around Seagrove NC. Probably a couple dozen pottery studios/galleries around that little town and we visited one out in the woods and they literally had thousands of hummers in the tree branches and a few hundred feeding and buzzing about at any one time. They had a lot of feeders spread around the grounds, maybe 25-30 I would guess. I'd never seen anything like it, but it was really cool! Wish I could remember the name of the place!
I'm on a national HB facebook group and a Carolinas one and tons of people in my area (greater Charlotte NC) are spotting them, but still not at my house in Rock Hill SC. Of course, I wouldn't know during the week while I'm at work, so we may have had a visitor. My GF works from home and doesn't watch as religiously as I do, but she's not seen them and she keeps an eye on it. A buddy says ours "usually" show up on Masters' week, which is still a week and a half away, but it does seem like more early visitors than normal. Saw one sighting as far north as Cincy I think. I feed and have bluebird boxes too and they've been behaving very differently this spring. Not coming to the "normal" feeder or times and I don't have any nests in either box, which is a first in 5+ years.
Do you ever look at the HB migration map? Scroll down and zoom in. Of course these are reports from probably hundreds of thousands of bird watchers, so still relatively few in any general area. I think most feeders in my area have not been visited yet.
2025 Hummingbird Migration Map
www.hummingbirdcentral.com
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Bowling Green and Paducah sightings. They're getting closer to my house.
Been enjoying them all winter at my FiL's when I'm there. His neighbor cut down all of the eucalyptus trees on the other side of the fence. Those were like magnets when they bloomed. Seemed to cause a little bit of a slowdown. Just got here last night and the feeder is empty from a couple of weeks ago when I left.
Been enjoying them all winter at my FiL's when I'm there. His neighbor cut down all of the eucalyptus trees on the other side of the fence. Those were like magnets when they bloomed. Seemed to cause a little bit of a slowdown. Just got here last night and the feeder is empty from a couple of weeks ago when I left.
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