2023 Hummingbird Thread

[phreddyp]

Changed out the nectar again. No sightings. Must not be on the flight path of the scouts.

No shortage here!

 

[RoseRed]

I washed and replaced the nectar this afternoon.

 

[glhs837]

Put ours out yesterday, wife said she'd seen a few around the flowers. As I turned towards the slider into the kitchen to give her a thumbs up, I got dive bombed close enough I felt the wind of his passage on my ear.

 

[Sneakers]

Still no sightings. Wonder what I did to pizz them off?

On the nice side, this little guy showed up in the garden today. Had one around last year, but it had a big ding in it's shell, this one doesn't, so not the same one.

 

[PrchJrkr]

Still no sightings. Wonder what I did to pizz them off?

On the nice side, this little guy showed up in the garden today. Had one around last year, but it had a big ding in it's shell, this one doesn't, so not the same one.

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Looks like someone is baiting them.

 

[Sneakers]

Looks like someone is baiting them.

Nah. He looked hungry, cut up a 'mater for him.

 

[PrchJrkr]

Nah. He looked hungry, cut up a 'mater for him.

Just messing with you. Give him/her a real treat and find some earthworms.

 

[Sneakers]

Just messing with you. Give him/her a real treat and find some earthworms.

I think he's finding his own. Turned his nose up at the maters and buried himself under the mulch.

 

[NextJen]

I still haven’t seen any hummingbirds yet.
But I do have baby sparrows, blue birds, and chickadees!

 

[NOTSMC]

I still haven’t seen any hummingbirds yet.
But I do have baby sparrows, blue birds, and chickadees!

Yesterday, I had a red bellied woodpecker on my tree, male and female bluebirds on the edge of my birdbath, a blue jay, goldfinch, indigo bunting, several cardinals at my feeders and one lone hummingbird all at the same time in my front yard. It was color overload for a good five minutes or so.

 

[OldHillcrestGuy]

No hummers yet in Charlotte Hall. Feeders been up about 2-3 weeks. About 3 weeks ago the wife said she saw a hummer at the feeders. I didnt have any Hummer feeders out, but she's not very good at identifying birds. I think was a very small woodpecker and I do mean small and very colorful, it was eating on the suet cake. Im sure that is what she saw.

 

[NOTSMC]

No hummers yet in Charlotte Hall. Feeders been up about 2-3 weeks. About 3 weeks ago the wife said she saw a hummer at the feeders. I didnt have any Hummer feeders out, but she's not very good at identifying birds. I think was a very small woodpecker and I do mean small and very colorful, it was eating on the suet cake. Im sure that is what she saw.

I had two baby downy woodpeckers last year - really hoping for a repeat this year. They were just the cutest little things.

 

[RoseRed]

I just saw another one. Might be the same one as before. Dark with a white ring around the neck.

 

[Sneakers]

Still no visitors.

Changed out the nectar once again.

 

[RoseRed]

My little bugger was here again today. After he (?) flew directly at my face, I saw he has a crimson neck that I never saw before.

 

[Ken King]

Got several regularly now. They seem to be able to put up with the at freezing AM temperatures.

 

[Sneakers]

1st sighting!!

 

[NextJen]

Finally! Standing out on my deck fishing and one just buzzed by. Cleaned out the feeder and refilled with fresh nectar. Maybe he’ll come back.

 

[RoseRed]

My little guy is super skittish. My cat was on the porch and I went out after her and could hear him chirping at her. Then I saw him hovering off the porch and go sit on a branch.

 

[3CATSAILOR]

Any sightings?

I put my feeder out late last week. Haven’t seen any here in Port Tobacco. They should be arriving in Southern Maryland any time now.

There was one in Ridge. My neighbor has four feeders out. Only one Hummer spotted though. And he has not returned. Apparently only passing through.