Anyone else have an unusually large number of hummingbirds this year?

[dragoneggs]

Don't hesitate to post! I often think I am but what the heck... someone hopefully will learn or at least get a grin out of it.

On the water... makes sense. Our water is straight from our well. IIRC... we have decent traces of Manganese (toilet bowls get black streaks). We don't filter our water except the water we pull for drinking from the refrigerator. It would be interesting to see if purified water would be more attractive to them. Maybe I should treat the HB to the same water we drink?

 

[Pixguy]

Thanks Sixdogs, I also appreciate your thoughts. We are in our first year in a new home with a softener. Luckily, I tee'd off the main from the well and sent a line to two hydrants at my rear garage and that's where I'll get water for my wife's mixture of hb food. :thumbsup:

 

[goeduck]

I use well water only. Around here there is a trace of radioactivity in the water. Gives the birds some extra go go juice.

 

[Pixguy]

I use well water only. Around here there is a trace of radioactivity in the water. Gives the birds some extra go go juice.

:laughing:

 

[oosik]

I'm strictly on spring water. No radioactivity - no glowing HB's. I've reached my "normal" max number of birds - 8 - until the young are flying. Refill the feeder once a day.

 

[goeduck]

This time of year they like to sit on my tomato cages on my deck. They never face the water but there are not any predator birds interested in such a small meal to worry about. This is just taken with my iPhone, I need to get a real camera.

 

[dragoneggs]

This time of year they like to sit on my tomato cages on my deck. They never face the water but there are not any predator birds interested in such a small meal to worry about. This is just taken with my iPhone, I need to get a real camera.
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Ha ha... just looking at the thumbnail pic I thought you had drawn that image. :laughing:

 

[goeduck]

Ha ha... just looking at the thumbnail pic I thought you had drawn that image. :laughing:

Here it is gargling before a night out looking for a date. Plump little resident guy, not like when the travelers get to town. They are rail thin.

 

[dragoneggs]

Yeah we definitely can tell the residents just getting fat on us vs. the passer throughs! :laughing:

 

[goeduck]

Been putting out 2 cups a day. Rufous hummers showing up more than normal lately. Rufous travel all the way to Alaska and have the longest flight path of all hummers FYI.

They are aggressive little buggers. Picture courtesy All About Birds.