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Visitors are few and far between at my feeder in central PA. This will be my last week feeding this year.
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Some still here. Just a few minutes ago, I saw one on the feeder in the back, and my wife saw one on the feeder in the front. Same time, so at least 2 still around, probably a few more. miles
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One at my feeder this morning, despite the front, don't expect it to be there this evening, too much of a free ride south going on today.
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I think ours have finally left. They love the cypress vines around the garden.
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We’er still seeing one or two a day here. Our max traffic was about two weeks ago.
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i filled a couple feeders today but haven't seen one in the last 5 days because we've been at grandkids. food was stale so i gave them fresh today. i hope a few are still passing through.
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I've not seen any here in a couple of weeks. I took my feeders down today as we're expecting a freeze tonight.
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16F here on the official thermometer at the airport. Haven't seen a hummingbird in weeks around our place.
Our feeder freezes at night, I think I'll try to remember to pull it down and put up the seed feeder for the recently arrived juncos.
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In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
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They’re still thick here. Just made another 2 gallons of nectar.
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Far northwest Illinois and I saw my last hummer a bit over a week ago. Feeders are still up for stragglers, but I hope they're all gone...
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Have couple holdout hanging on up here. Been down in the teens for a few nights and I have no idea how they are tolerating such.
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I'll miss sitting on the porch and hearing the buzz. Pretty sure it's the noise that inspired light saber sounds...
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Out at the camp in Northern WV and it looks like the feeder hasn’t been touched since last weekend. Suppose I’ll empty it Monday for the season.
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We have four hummingbird feeders on our back deck this year and we seem to be getting some migrants coming through ‘cause the activity has really picked up the last two weeks. My wife and I were at the table finishing our morning coffee a couple of days ago watching a bunch of hummingbirds in a feeding frenzy and she asked, “I wonder what it would be like if someone put a ‘Go Pro’ on a hummingbird?” 😀
Try to picture that the next time you’re watching them. Pretty sure it would just be a short clip of falling to the ground.
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I think that my birds are finally gone. I saw 4 day before yesterday, and none yesterday.  Pretty late for this. miles
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The Texas Gulf Coast is the ruby-throat Interstate in Fall migration, we know now that in the Fall many go around the Gulf rather than cross it.
Three weeks ago there was about 50 at least at any given time around the feeders at the Corpus Christi Hawk Watch site. This past Sunday there was maybe 5.
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Not seeing any activity at our feeders now and no change in the nectar level for a week or so. With the temperatures dropping into the mid thirties at night and a few morning frosts I imagine the hummingbirds are probably all done passing through here for this year so we'll likely take our feeders down this weekend.
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I leave mine up all year round, tho months can go by with none at all. Winter is slight down here and a whole slew of rufous hummingbirds now migrate down the Rockies to Mexico, and then turn left to winter along the Gulf Coast. Aint seen one at my feeder in some years tho.
Likewise buff-bellied hummingbirds are now resident along the Texas Coast, once in a blue moon one will wander up here.
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Today's also the day for me, joken. Big storm forecast for the weekend and no change in the nectar level for over a week now. We've had a hard frost or two, also. They must all have passed by before now. Sad.
Should start seeing junkos any day now, our sure sign that winter is upon us. They're cute little boogers, but not as loved as my little hummies.
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It was 46 here yesterday morning and 50 this morning after our first cold front came through. We saw two here yesterday and have seen one or two a day for the last two weeks or so.. Three weeks ago was our peak.
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