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

[ponytug]

Idk what’s going on but I find a dead Hummer in my shop, laying on the mower step EVERY YEAR.!!

Cats?

 

[thepumpguysc]

Nope.. no cats. PLUS.. the door is sealed with a concrete floor.??
It’s a mystery for sure.??

 

[sixdogs]

Nope.. no cats. PLUS.. the door is sealed with a concrete floor.??
It’s a mystery for sure.??

Maybe they get trapped in there with the door shut? No other explanation.

 

[goeduck]

The Rufous travelers from Alaska and Canada are still going through, stopping to refill. We will be down to our year around resident Annas in a few weeks.

 

[psvfd]

Maybe three here.

 

[QRTRHRS]

We have two still hanging around here in south central KY. That's down from about 50 or 60 as close as we could kind of count. Kind of glad that we only get the ruby throat's. Nice to see them come back in the spring but are glad to get a break come fall. We will keep two feeders up just in case some stop by on their journey south.

 

[BackRoad]

In the late fall I have hiked to a particular point on the AT high above the Delaware River. If you catch the timing right with strong, cold northern fronts in late October and November, on a given day you might see 25+ big raptors, hawks and eagles gliding south with the tail winds pushing them. They seem to never flap their wings, but just ride the wind currents on their long migration south.

And yet it always amazes me more when considering the little hummers with no meaningful glide capability.

They work hard for every mile they cover while migrating south - and it's a lot of miles for those poor little critters!!!

 

[goeduck]

We have two still hanging around here in south central KY. That's down from about 50 or 60 as close as we could kind of count. Kind of glad that we only get the ruby throat's. Nice to see them come back in the spring but are glad to get a break come fall. We will keep two feeders up just in case some stop by on their journey south.

Year around hummers here with our little ones. I put up heaters on the feeders when we get an occasional freeze.

 

[QRTRHRS]

In the late fall I have hiked to a particular point on the AT high above the Delaware River. If you catch the timing right with strong, cold northern fronts in late October and November, on a given day you might see 25+ big raptors, hawks and eagles gliding south with the tail winds pushing them. They seem to never flap their wings, but just ride the wind currents on their long migration south.

And yet it always amazes me more when considering the little hummers with no meaningful glide capability.

They work hard for every mile they cover while migrating south - and it's a lot of miles for those poor little critters!!!View attachment 1472920

Been awhile since I was around that area. Back in 1978 I believe it was, before the Merrill Creek reservoir was built, Greg Hanisek who wrote an outdoor column for the Easton Express and a few others hawk watchers counted approximately 18,000 broadwing's in one day. No lie.

 

[BackRoad]

It's a pretty area...and the Delaware River Valley is a perfect corridor for them. I can believe it.