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

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,
We seem to get a greater quantity of HB’s at our Vermont house than the Ct house ! Maybe it’s the view is better in the mountains !

Only problem is that sometimes we are away for 2 weeks , so in the fall before they return south they go through that juice pretty quickly!

They are certainly entertaining to watch, especially when they are dive bombing each other at the feeder !

 

[Gem99ultra]

They're Back!!!
We usually have 3 feeders out that are cleaned and refilled twice (or more) per day. This year we'd only seen on Hummer, so we cut back to one feeder. Now, here it is almost July and suddenly we have gobs of hummers, just overnight. They're feeding about a dozen at a time, all day.
I have to wonder, were the original ones scouts, or just why the hummers were so late this year.
...yes, we love Humming Birds.

 

[kenmbz]

Our feeder is 1/3 full, but the juice is getting old.
Hummer came by window to let us know

 

[psvfd]

Has increased here a little. I have two feeders (3/4 cup each) changing every three days to keep them fresh. Now may have to increase the amount I put in them.

 

[ultrarunner]

Still Nada... like so many they may have relocated away from Oakland?

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I think the bird flu has killed a lot of hummers.

 

[oosik]

Looks like I've topped out at four pair. Pretty soon I should be seeing the young.

 

[goeduck]

We are between the camel humps now. One hump in spring when the Rufous are going through to Canada and Alaska, one hump in the fall when they are headed south. The rest of the year is mostly resident Annas that stay all year and some Rufous.

 

[sixdogs]

They're Back!!!
We usually have 3 feeders out that are cleaned and refilled twice (or more) per day. This year we'd only seen on Hummer, so we cut back to one feeder. Now, here it is almost July and suddenly we have gobs of hummers, just overnight. They're feeding about a dozen at a time, all day.
I have to wonder, were the original ones scouts, or just why the hummers were so late this year.
...yes, we love Humming Birds.

We have not had many at the feeders by the house but I have seen them repeatedly zoom into some spruce trees near the house. I figure they're having babies and eating the little black bugs I see near there. I did see what I believe is a little HB and an adult has buzzed my red hat a couple times but I've seen neither at the window.

We just keep changing the fluid and not worrying about it.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Do hummers go dormant in very hot weather? We had 5 days above 100, with a high of 107. The feeders were untouched, until the temp dropped back into the 90s, then they drained two feeders in one day. Has anybody else seen this?