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in the past 2-3 weeks. They're not hitting the feeders hard at all. Reckon they're still migrating north? I see one or two every evening but a month ago I'd see 6-8 buzzing around the feeders.
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Not sure what is the problem but I am seeing less birds so far this year.
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What is a hummingbird? A big bumble bee?
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I have 6 to 8 steady feeders. Watching 4 right now.
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We surely don't have as many as we usually do at this time of year. Not as many migrating warblers, either, but then we are still in an awful drought. We do have a couple of pairs of Bullock's Orioles, though, and they are hitting the hummingbird feeder pretty hard.
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Mick, I just looked out and there were five sitting and eating at one time, on one feeder and I have two out. Seems I am blessed with them. miles
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We have blue jays and crows...
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They have been trickling in at the feeder on the front porch. The black-chinned hummers showed up about 3 weeks ago and the broad-tails followed a week later. I saw this "lifer" bird last weekend in the Gila: Red Faced Warbler (picture source: planetofbirds.com) ![[Linked Image]](http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/gg547/salsola/Red-facedWarbler_zps32f5a2e9.jpg)
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Went north early....and froze their azzes off!!
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Mick, I just looked out and there were five sitting and eating at one time, on one feeder and I have two out. Seems I am blessed with them. miles About the same here Miles. Eating and fighting all day. Spent weekend with my old school chum. Bout 60 miles west of me. He has more birds there than we do!
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Mickey,
I think they are still holding to the south of us. We have had some, but not the usual numbers.
Barbara and I have been privileged to have seen two different pairs of Ruby Throated Hummingbirds mating this spring. It is an incredible sight.
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Barbara and I have been privileged to have seen two different pairs of Ruby Throated Hummingbirds mating this spring. As many birds as I usually have, I have never seen that. miles
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This is a very cool migration map. It's updated constantly. Very interesting to watch how they move as the weather changes.... http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html
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I've had feeders out for a while, and the liquid level is slowly decreasing, but I haven't seen or heard a bird yet. Right about now is when I usually see the first ones, so I'm not overly concerned yet.
Just eager.
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Have yet to get that "in my face buzzing" proclaiming we are here!!! Where's the food?
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Barbara and I have been privileged to have seen two different pairs of Ruby Throated Hummingbirds mating this spring. It is an incredible sight. Casual hook-ups, nothing more, hummingbird males are universally deadbeat dads who love 'em and leave 'em. The females may complain about all that, but every year without fail they succumb to the bling  As for the hummingbird movements coming back, remember there are literally millions returning. If each one could be projected as a single red dot on a map of North America they would shift incrementally north each day; shifting this way and that in response to crosswinds, piling up against cold fronts and weather systems, but getting strung out north again with the arrival of tailwinds. Sometime a single location will have a bunch of 'em, other times not so many. To get an idea of the complexity off all this, check out the birdcast website.... http://birdcast.info/forecast/regional-migration-forecast-18-25-april-2014/Birdwatcher
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I put one of my feeders out last weekend. Nothing yet. 
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This from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's subscriber website "Birds of North America" re: Ruby-throat spring migration..... Males begin arriving along the Alabama Gulf Coast in late February, preceding females by 8�10days; birds still fairly common in Palo Verde, Costa Rica, as late as 14 March. Peak migration on the Gulf Coast (sw. Louisiana) in the second half of April, with males preceding females by about 3 days.
Males arrive at Powdermill Nature Reserve (Rector, PA) late April; females arrive about 2 weeks later. Males arrive in Vermont during first week of May. In Ohio, arrival dates range from 25 Apr to 2 May in s. Ohio and from 5 to 12 May along Lake Erie. Both sexes present in New Brunswick, Canada, by mid-May.
Peak northward movement (unlike in the fall) is not in synchrony with peak flowering of any particular plant species. Arrival on northern breeding grounds may depend on earlier arrival of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker to guarantee availability of sap in absence of reliable nectar production.
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Nothing up here, but we were still doing the snow fall thing this AM.
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