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I am aware that this topic might need to be deleted--as I KNOW that Lynne has already seem Hummingbirds this year--and it seems to me that Cindy started a topic but I cant find either--so here I go.....

I put out my H. feeders a few days ago--and this morning I saw hummers playing out in the yard. AND I saw a pregnant one on the wire tomato cage that I have in a pot next to one of the feeders for them to sit on

YAY for me !!! I am happy---

There are lots of Hummingbirds here... too many to even try to count. I've seen a few babies already!
It might just be my imagination, but it seems like there are a lot more girls than boys this year... but I don't see as well as I used to.

There were a lot here, not too many to count--perhaps 6 or 7--just all of a sudden--and they were figting each other too--at first I thought they were playing but then I decided that one was chasing the others off--

We should get ours by the middle of the month, usually around the 16th.

I have noticed most of my hummingbirds are female, also....even the babies. Wonder what's up with that?

Saw a pregnant one too, either that or she was really fat. Reminds me I need liquid for my feeders

They have landed here...a week early.

last year they arrived May 11 or 12th--this year it was May 10..
so apparenntly that is about usual for me...

Hello! Beckyh, a newbie, here...I live in North Idaho, and have seen fewer and fewer hummingbirds over the past few years :/. I've been planting hummingbird-attracting plants and hanging hummingbird feeders around our yard.

They don't seem to be drinking the commercial nectar or the stuff I make with boiling sugar, even though I see a few at the feeders... Do you have a special formula for your hummingbird feeders that you can share?

I have a bazillion hummingbirds this year...they are eating me out of house and home.
I don't use store bought food...I make mine 1 part sugar with 4 parts water.
I have to fill my feeders up everyday.

My dad insists you have to have the store bought stuff with the red dye in it...(he is old)...but he has no hummingbirds and I have swarms of them and live very close to him.

Yep I have a LOT of Hummingbirds this year as well, an uncharecteristic lot for this time of year---and yes I can barely keep 2 feeders full for 1 day. I too make my own nectar
(4 parts water to 1 part sugar, mixed well & brought to a boil & then boiled for 1 minute & cooled)
& it is almost a full time job to keep food in them. In previous years they only fed like this say a week before they migrated--& that is usually the first week of October for me.
And they do not seem to mind me being close to the feeders, or each other. I guess when you are hungry......

"but" having said that, I am also feeding the wasps & Honey bees. I was complaining but Rod says "they gotta eat too". The bees keep knocking the yellow flowers out of the feeders. Thankfully the Bumble bees are chosing my flowers over the feeders.

I will say that I have not seen even so much as 1 Orilole this year though, usually for a week or so they come thru, but not this year.

I finally got pictures There are at least three that I saw today the pictures are that great as I don't have my camera anymore this is a borrowed camera








2 of them are the lighter grey color and the one that wouldn't be still long enough to get a picture is a dark green and black color