Fall is close

[Caustic Burno]

We are on a migration path for humingbirds and they gather here usually a couple of weeks before heading to Mexico.
There are hundreds of the little syrup slurping varmits on my front porch. Mrs. is going through over a gallon and half of sugar water a day in feeders hanging on the porch. This happens every year, you risk your life walking out the front door . Need an air traffc controller for hummingbirds.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

And to think I get fired up when two or three come by my place.

 

[backhoeboogie]

It's the bees here. They're starving.

 

[highgrit]

Their aggressive little buggers to one another. Sometimes we have 10-12 on the two feeders on the back porch and they will be making some noise with their wings and their high pitch chirpin.

 

[3waycross]

I am seeing a lot of those big ole moths that look like a hummingbird

 

[Caustic Burno]

I told the wife she should call Natgeo as it is unbelievable at how many swarm here. We have people call and ask if they can come over and sit on the porch to watch them. There will be a two at a time drinking out of each hole on the feeder. The front yard is an acre of so and the trees are working alive with them. There is no fighting when they get ready to migrate they share. I have tried to get pics and all I get is blurry dots even around the feeders, I just don't have good enough equipment to photograph them.

 

[peg4x4]

I was watering the plants yesterday when a Hummingbird lit on a tomato cage within arms length
of me and sat there sticking it's tongue out at the water.. So I sprayed water on the plants and it slurped up a couple of drops.. seemed to be grateful..

 

[stocky]

Don't know if they have started leaving here to go south or not, but we were having 25 or more at a time at the feeders and the trees full and using a gallon of sugar water a day, but now there are many less and not using half as much sugar water. It is 80 degrees instead of 105, so that could be the reason, if they haven't migrated

 

[Calman]

We are on a migration path for humingbirds and they gather here usually a couple of weeks before heading to Mexico.
There are hundreds of the little syrup slurping varmits on my front porch. Mrs. is going through over a gallon and half of sugar water a day in feeders hanging on the porch. This happens every year, you risk your life walking out the front door . Need an air traffc controller for hummingbirds.

CB you don't wan't to go outside wearing a red cap. Several years ago I was at my MIL's place on Nocona lake and she had several feeders hanging around. I had a red cap on and had so many dive bombing my head I finally discovered it was the red cap.Took it off and laid it on the picnic table and there must have been 50 or so swarming around it.

Cal

 

[bigbull338]

i bet that is 1 fine sight to see.enjoy them while you can CB.

 

[TexasBred]

I would see the things hoover in the mist of the water sprinkler when it was so hot. We only have 2 or 3 every year but it's like a miniature "dog fight" up there.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Several years ago I found a humming bird nest in a bodark tree about head high. Had never found one before and haven't found once since. That was about an hour's worth of entertainment in itself right there.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Wife is up to three gallons of sugar water a day thats ten pounds of sugar every few days.
We have always had ton's of the little birds, with the drought this is unreal at the birds this year.

 

[hillsdown]

My hummers left here the end of Aug. Love those little hummingbirds they make winter survivable just knowing that I have them to look forward to I had 5 feeders out around the house and went through 20kg's of sugar this year, was refilling at least 2 feeders everyday. They also were getting tons of nectar form the fruit trees and all of my flowers.

We too got a few lost souls because of the wild fires up North (northern AB) ,there was no where else for them to go.

 

[dun]

It rolleed in here this morning. High in the 50s today and tomorrow so far

 

[3waycross]

Same here, 48 degrees. It's feels colder than a hore's heart and raining a slow drizzle for the last 6 hours.