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In all the years we’ve fed hummingbirds… 17 years in North Carolina and 21 years here…. we have never had more than two on a feeder at a time.

Ever.

They’re territorial little buggers and don’t usually tolerate companions when feeding. So when I snapped a picture of three hummers on the nectar together last week, I was thrilled and thought I’d seen something special.

And then yesterday I saw this…

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I have no idea why… but we are currently in the middle of a hummingbird population explosion.

Every day there’s a literal flock of the little darlings buzzing around our deck.

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I didn’t manage to capture a photo of the six, but I did get a few of these 5… which for me was an absolute delight.

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I don’t know what we’re doing right.. but I’m going to try and keep doing it.

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27 thoughts on “Hum-azing .”

  3. How wonderful to be able to see them so close up and your love for nature is admirable.
    I wonder if it’s because of the fires in Canada that there are more of them where you are this year?

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    1. Nor do we have them in Northern Canada, though I saw a few when I lived down South. Never many. A flock was an impossibility!
      Just talking thtough my baseball cap, Rg, but maybe a bunch got blown northwards by a hurticane wind, and now they are thriving in an environment without too many natural enemies.
      Keep up the good servicr.

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  5. There does seem to be a hummingbird explosion everywhere. On my NextDoor feed (Arlington VA) people are posting amazing photos of LOTS and LOTS of hummingbirds…flocks of hummingbirds!

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  8. Momma River is providing such a wonderful menu in her restaurant that it is becoming a “no-agreesion” haven for her patrons. Peace Bottle will be the talk oh the hummingbird population for years to come…

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      1. Faith, girl, faith. If you can get some hummingbirds to sit long enough to eat, you can get more to do it.
        You can be the Peacebringer of hummingbird legends!

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      1. I found it flopping around on a concreted floor in an external stairwell. It had gotten caught in a spider web and the web had wrapped itself around its tiny little legs. I went to pull off the web but it looked like, if I did, its legs were coming with it. Then, I remembered I had my trusty pocketknife. I gently sawed through the web and let it fly away…

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  12. I’m lucky if I see one each summer here in Minnesota, but at the campground we stay at in Colorado they hang a huge feeder by the office cabin and dozens zip in and out of the nearby trees to feed and hide, feed and hide. It’s spectacular.

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