Community Chat

[wagirl]

The hummers here in western WA are  year round--I have 2 of them still fighting and zooming around everyday. Have to fill the feeder at least weekly now but it was every few days when it was summer---I call them humming pigs!!! and they buzz around the patio door when the food is low/gone--little piggies

[ozarkgirl]

I live in southern Missouri and we still have the hummers.Thought they were gone but 2 are till hanging around The feeder is  still up. It has been unusually warm the past few weeks so guess they don't want to leave.

[MoJoV]

I'm in the Chicago burbs and haven't seen a hummingbird for a week.  I will probably take my feeders down in a week.  Although I love Autumn, it makes me sad when my little flying jewels leave.😟

[Icegoddess]

Just saw one feeding here in AL, so I still have at least one.

[NickNack]

I'm the OP and haven't seen a hummingbird since Saturday in East TN.  I usually leave the feeders up for a couple of weeks after I see my last one just in case there are any coming through.

Edited to say:  I spoke too soon.  I saw one yesterday (Monday).

[Susan Louise]

We document our Hummingbird visitors here during the Spring & Fall migrations. The latest we had a migrator pass through in the Fall was 10/17/2010.

Since then, the latest so far this year is today 10/14/2018 and we have 3!!! We have one female and 2 juvie males. So it is a new record for us to have more than one this late in the migration period. If just one stays beyond the 17th, that will be another new record.

However, we would rather see them all continue on their journey, which is more important than any of our documenting any records. In the meantime we are enjoying their company.

Here's a pic taken today of one of the juvie males during our snowstorm in eastern Nebraska...bless his heart

[NickNack]

@Susan Louise  That's so interesting to see the hummingbird on the snow covered feeder!  I've never seen that.  I haven't seen a hummingbird in about a week now.  I'm in East TN.

[Susan Louise]

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@NickNack wrote:

@Susan Louise  That's so interesting to see the hummingbird on the snow covered feeder!  I've never seen that.  I haven't seen a hummingbird in about a week now.  I'm in East TN.

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@NickNack If you 'google' Hummingbirds in snow, there are lots of videos/stories. This is our 1st experience of having such an early snowstorm and Hummingbirds here at the same time!

Being here in Lincoln, Nebraska, we pray there are still some folks south of us within about 60 miles or less that still have feeders out. Our temps will be in the mid 20's tonight so there will be nothing surviving in our gardens. The temps will be this low tonight down through half of Kansas too, so I worry about once these cuties leave they won't survive because they won't find others with feeders still up between here and northern Kansas. If they can make it that far I'm sure they will be fine with more southern folks with feeders still out and gardens that had no frost/freeze yet.

We live about 60 miles too far west to have them here during the breeding period in the summer, so we get excited during the migration periods and it makes documenting them fun.

[arrabella]

@OutofMadison

I live in the uppper desert in Ca. near the Joshua Tree National Monument and we also have some hummers that are here all year long. If we expect a freeze, we take our feeders in also. During the summer months, we keep 5 large feeders in the front of the house and 1 on the so. side. I'm filling one of them almost every day.  The hummers that leave for warmer weather have left so I'll just keep a small amount of feed in them as I have no idea which ones they are using.  Don't want one to find his/her feeder gone. LOL!!