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Aug 23rd, 2010 at 9:36am
 
I stood in the corner to capture breakfast at the hummingbird feeder. I love how I can see their little necks gurgle as they drink. BTW Joe filled this feeder yesterday. It's only 6:30 AM!

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Reply #1 - Aug 23rd, 2010 at 11:19am
 
Breakfast at 6:30 Thats time for lunch! Wink
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Reply #2 - Aug 24th, 2010 at 7:41am
 
Getting home from work time. 


No mornin' hummin' here, just buzzin' in the blooms by bumblebees having breakfast in the bushes.
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Reply #3 - Aug 25th, 2010 at 7:56pm
 
It's getting hot here and the little buggers are eating me out of house and home! Grin

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Reply #4 - Aug 26th, 2010 at 10:53am
 
The hummers are very active here.  No rufous hummers right now, but that changes from day to day.  Lots of blackchins, though, including a couple of young ones.

They don't like it when a person messes with their feeders.   Filling them is perilous.  Wink

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Reply #5 - Aug 27th, 2010 at 9:17am
 
I love when you're trying to re hang it, they hover six inches away from your face going "click click, click click!!" Grin

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Reply #6 - Aug 27th, 2010 at 11:15am
 

I don't have any feeders for them, but almost every single morning when I go outside on my back deck with my coffee and the paper..the noise of opening and closing the door and the scrape of the chair being pulled out must alert this one little guy, because I no sooner sit down and here he comes from around the side of the house.  He'll swoop in fast and stop and hover right in front of me for a good long time and then he's buzzes off.

This is almost becoming a ritual and I just love it.  Come Fall and Winter...when they go into hibernation or whatever it is they do..I'm gonna miss the little guy.
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Reply #7 - Aug 27th, 2010 at 11:34am
 
Linda_Howell wrote on Aug 27th, 2010 at 11:15am:
This is almost becoming a ritual and I just love it.  Come Fall and Winter...when they go into hibernation or whatever it is they do..I'm gonna miss the little guy.

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Most hummingbirds of the U.S. and Canada migrate south in fall to spend the winter in northern Mexico or Central America. A few southern South American species also move to the tropics in the southern winter. A few species are year-round residents in the warmer coastal and interior desert regions. Among these is Anna's Hummingbird, a common resident from southern California inland to southern Arizona and north to southwestern British Columbia.

The Rufous Hummingbird is one of several species that breed in western North America and are wintering in increasing numbers in the southeastern United States, rather than in tropical Mexico. Thanks in part to artificial feeders and winter-blooming gardens, hummingbirds formerly considered doomed by faulty navigational instincts are surviving northern winters and even returning to the same gardens year after year. Individuals that survive winters in the north, however, may have altered internal navigation instincts that could be passed on to their offspring. The Rufous Hummingbird nests farther north than any other species and must tolerate temperatures below freezing on its breeding grounds. This cold hardiness enables it to survive temperatures well below freezing, provided that adequate shelter and feeders are available.
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Reply #8 - Aug 27th, 2010 at 12:48pm
 
I love my little guys too!   I didn't realise that they eat bugs too. ( Or I guess they do.)  I watched one chase a little bug away from the feeder and it disappeared into the birds mouth! 

I only have two birds visiting my feeder and they never eat at the same time.  One always chases the other away.

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Reply #9 - Aug 27th, 2010 at 1:05pm
 
Jeannie wrote on Aug 27th, 2010 at 12:48pm:
I only have two birds visiting my feeder and they never eat at the same time.  One always chases the other away.

Pecking order.  Wink
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Reply #10 - Aug 27th, 2010 at 2:27pm
 
I never put feeders out at home... But I watch them all day every day..Wild Birds & Accessories.. moved right next door to my place of employment about 10 years ago.. During the Summer, the owner, Larry, also puts up a "Butterfly House" ... 

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