Who has hummingbirds?

[Kathy in VA]

Toy, I am glad to know they are still up there and will be coming down from the north...I will keep the feeders out for your birds you are sending down my way (thru VA), even though we are having a freeze warning Sunday night...will have to bring in one style of feeder that night, and put it back out real early Monday morning...I have up two Perky Pet suction-cup window-mounted feeders that are famous for cracking if the solution freezes and expands inside them! The other styles I use have not broken (yet.) Thanks for the heads-up.

[Louise Chambers]

Numbers have really dropped here today - we are expecting a front tonight, and thought that they might head out before it got here. Still have some orioles, but just a few hummers, as far as I can tell.

[jogl]

Had to look twice. Two hummingbirds here on Wednesday (Sept. 28 ). We are 50 miles due east of Detroit.

[Linda Reynolds]

The latest additions to this thread, especially from those located in the north, should serve as a thermostat for southern birders to keep their feeders out, cleaned and filled for these late migrants.

Our heaviest population has diminished, but we still see daily bursts of new arrivals. We have reduced the number of feeders to five, and still need to replenish them daily. The bulk of the population seems to have moved away from our area, but we are still seeing adults and youngsters visiting.

[ToyinPA]

We have 2 hummers. Both look to be juvenile. One is a little smaller than the other. I know one was a female. I couldn't get a good look at the other to determine the sex. We've had allot of rain in the last few weeks. Almost 16 inches in September! Major flooding in many areas. Poor things sat in the cold rain all puffed up. Our nights are now in the 40's.

My husband is worried they were left behind, don't know how to migrate & thinks we may need to put up some sort of house/heat for them.

If they should decide to stay what do we do to keep them from freezing? The feeder they seem to like is in the middle of my back yard.

I'm hoping they're just hanging out & fattening up before they push south.

Toy in PA

[Veronica G]

I think the front must have urged more hummingbirds south. We have a lot more this morning than we did yesterday. We also still have two orioles hanging around eating oranges and visiting hummingbird feeders.

Veronica

[msalcido]

my hummer population seems to have dropped not increase. I'm in Texas. Did have two visit this past weekend but was used to seeing a "swarm' of them. Have dropped the feeders back from 5 to 2.

[ccarlin]

our last two hummingbirds just let tuesday. we have never had hummingbirds this late in the year. we had a very good year for hummingbirds. from middle august until the first week in october we had an average of forty humminbirds every day.thats more than we have ever had. i.m glad they finally left though, because this morning it was thirty seven degrees... way too cold for hummers.

[Don Troha]

Got a couple of Rufous HBs hanging around the past few days. Here's one of them:
http://goo.gl/2Jnqv

[trisha]

I had 2 ruby throat hummingbirds come thru yesterday!

[Louise Chambers]

Don, is that a sage plant the rufous is enjoying? Nice photo.

We have a few blackchins and rubythroats around, but they are few and far between here in town.

The winter birds are coming in, and that's a blast. Maybe we can have a new thread to share news about what we're seeing, feeding, etc, until martins come back -

Yesterday was a big day for one of our local Audubon groups, Coastal Bend Audubon. So we counted birds - saw our first sandhill cranes of the season, plus red tailed and red shouldered hawks, crested caracaras, coopers and sharpshinned hawks, a white tailed hawk, a vermillion flycatcher, some warblers, wrens, woodpeckers, thrashers, lincoln's sparrows, lark sparrows, savannah sparrows - a fun way to spend a day.

I'm copying this to a new thread, I hope we can have fun sharing news about bird feeding and bird watching.