re: Hummingbird wars

I am still having swarms of them up here. My wife estimated that she has gone through 15 pounds of sugar since they started migrating.

The most hummers I have ever seen were at Tara. Literally hundreds of them one afternoon. I remember one of their hands saying they went through a hundred #’s of sugar a week feeding them.

We’ve got a ton of the black-chinned hummingbirds this year. 4-5 fighting for the feeder all day.

Got them in St Tammany.
I’ve picked them up off the ground when they fall and get too wet from the dew. Wipe them off and they fly away.
A male had a freak accident today. I found it hung between the two hangers that split from the metal post. I’m assuming it was fighting with another one and somehow got his neck stuck between the two rods.

Have 6 and still have a Sugar Water Sentry enforcing his no trespass rule.

We have 6 feeders up right now and about to add a couple more. Three of the feeders have bullies guarding them and joust all afternoon.

Then we have a couple of feeders that must have been deemed a bully free zone.

Explain so I can try that.
They drained one feeder yesterday, swarms yesterday afternoon.
How many calories do they need daily to sustain their rpms?

past few years I would drive my FIL to Platero valley, CO so he could fish with his marine and home town buddies. 9,000' elevation and the humming birds are wild arse. Good bird watching when we were at the lodge. Mean little F'ers.

Mine has gone nuts buying feeders and mixing sugar water. Not going to tell her because there’s no doubt she will look like the Statue of Liberty trying to replicate what yours does to feed them.

Middle of the city of Mobile. I have maybe one or two. Just started to put out a feeder last year.

I rarely seem the hummingbirds, but my single feeds drains in a day when they notice.