Humming Birds

[PAUL161]

Partially opened one garage door this morning as it was raining, after it stopped raining for a while I went out to open it more and found 7 hummingbirds in the garage! It's the most I've ever seen here in one group. I opened both doors fully to let them out. I actually have a feeder in the garage, plus others under the porch roof, to pull them down from the ceiling and the feeder gets them to fly out the door openings. 7 of the little critters! Love watching them.

 

[Bayless]

Amazing. Never seen that many at one time.

 

[PAUL161]

I never have either and they will fly under a partially open door, but won't fly low enough to fly back out, so, I open both doors fully, and eventually they'll leave. I've had a couple trapped in the garage and had to use a special net to get them out, without injuring them, their so fragile.

 

[John Turney]

I'm always fascinated when one will come up to me, hovering about 2 ft away and we just look at each other. I usually say "Hi" but they don't speak back.

 

[JPSmit]

been trying to entice them for three years so far - no luck - I don't think we have enough flowers even though we have feeders

 

[bobhustead]

We have a few here (NC) too. I saw video on TV last night of a hummer hovering around a man's face, making contact. First year we had our shop building up a hummer kept flying in thru the big doors. I had to hand catch it to get it out. I assumed that the building was in a path the bird had established and it flew in out of habit.

Bob

 

[DavidApp]

We keep several feeders full all summer. Some days there are a lot and other days very few. Must be visiting the neighbors feeders.

We only put sugar and water in the feeder No Red Dye needed to attract them.

David

 

[Basil]

Some years we have swarms of Hummers, other years, just a few. This year has been one of those "few" years.

 

[PAUL161]

We also use only sugar and water after reading an article saying the dye in some mixes isn't needed and some can actually harm them. They are attracted by the colorful "flower" on the feeder more than anything else. We've had more this year than ever before.

 

[pdplot]

I took my feeder down this summer because of lack of customers.

 

[waltesefalcon]

I used to put a feeder up in hipped off attracting some but never did. Now I just put out seed for the cardinals, Robins, and whatnot.

 

[Basil]

In “hipped off”…

 

[waltesefalcon]

Darned autocorrect. I put it up in hopes of attracting humming birds. Now I'm going to hip off to bed.

 

[Basil]

Darned autocorrect. I put it up in hopes of attracting humming birds. Now I'm going to hip off to bed.

Sweat dreams