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Related: About this forumHummingbirds not all gone yet.
I thought yesterday they had all left but two of them showed up about 5 PM one of them came over to look at me in the window
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Hummingbirds not all gone yet. (Original Post)
Walleye
Sep 2022
OP
My deck is on the second and top floor, so I get pretty good sunlight. I hope they haven't all gone
Walleye
Sep 2022
#2
They are doing the gathering of the tribes thing down here, before their big trip.
Tactical Peek
Sep 2022
#5
woodsprite
(11,712 posts)1. We have 2 that keep showing up several times daily
Your pic is beautiful! I cant get a decent one of ours due to shading from our porch.
Walleye
(28,106 posts)2. My deck is on the second and top floor, so I get pretty good sunlight. I hope they haven't all gone
Tree-Hugger
(3,304 posts)3. What a stunning photo nt
Walleye
(28,106 posts)4. Thank you! They're such a pretty little birds.

Tactical Peek
(1,190 posts)5. They are doing the gathering of the tribes thing down here, before their big trip.

Walleye
(28,106 posts)7. Wonderful!
Ponietz
(2,698 posts)9. Lunch with the kids
The male at my feeder had 2 broods this year.
AllaN01Bear
(14,117 posts)6. we have a indigness local population so they dont head south.
Ponietz
(2,698 posts)8. Leave a light for stragglers
Experience taught me a few individuals might come through weeks after the others depart.
Walleye
(28,106 posts)10. I was actually lazy enough to leave my feeder out in November a few years ago
And a Rufus hummingbird came and visited me thousands of miles out of his normal territory. He stayed for two weeks. Feeder was starting to freeze upI saved a couple of shots of him