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Post by featherduster on Sept 25, 2018 16:21:17 GMT -5
Sometime in the past 24 hours my last Hummingbird departed for her winter home. It was a great year for hummers with about 6 visiting on a daily basis.
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 25, 2018 16:35:23 GMT -5
I still have a half dozen here in Newburgh.
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Post by bill9068 on Sept 25, 2018 16:48:14 GMT -5
Just saw two fighting here in Evansville.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Sept 25, 2018 17:05:41 GMT -5
We haven’t had many in a week or two now. Just saw one last week and that was it. First year for them at the new house and it sure was fun watching them.
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Post by jager on Sept 25, 2018 17:11:29 GMT -5
They are neat. Been watching a couple tonight from the deck. Two days ago I came out to the deck and one had apparently flown into the sliding glass door and didn’t make it.
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Post by parson on Sept 26, 2018 9:35:36 GMT -5
I took the feeders down a few days ago. We enjoy watching the hummers and the butterflies. Gonna plant more flowers come spring.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2018 9:48:34 GMT -5
Last weekend I had thousands of black birds around the area. It was so noisy. They covered the trees in an area around 20 acres. They hung around to about 2pm.
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Post by Russ Koon on Sept 26, 2018 9:48:56 GMT -5
Still have one jealously guarding the feeders here. The water level has almost stopped dropping, so I suspect the one we see chasing any other hungry visitors away is the lone straggler here, and the north wind today should be her cue to ride it south.
Kinda puzzled by the goldfinches, though. We're new to hummer feeding, but have enjoyed watching the goldfinches for years. They were still feeding here regularly but less heavily than usual, until they stopped visiting suddenly about a month ago. I had just bought a new supply of nyjer at Rural King, and they seemed to be feeding on it as usual through the first couple fills of the feeder, then.....nothing. Reading other sites on the subject, I see other finch feeders are puzzled also about their disappearing birds. Some experienced feeders say it's just the nature of the goldfinch to vacate an area without good reason sometimes for a year or more, but it seems odd when they've been here very regularly and in good numbers until now.
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 26, 2018 10:34:05 GMT -5
I just refilled my two hummingbird feeders and they could not wait until I got done. They were buzzing me all the time I was out there. This is probably my last filling. They need to hit the road, Jack.
Gold finches are hit and miss. They wont touch my feeders for a few weeks nd then all of sudden they are cleaning me out.
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Post by oldhoyt on Sept 26, 2018 10:56:29 GMT -5
We had a hummer nesting on an ornamental pear branch here at work. Checked on them a few times, saw the eggs, then the chicks and then, nothing. No sign of trouble, so I assume they fledged.
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Post by dbd870 on Sept 26, 2018 10:57:01 GMT -5
Yeah we are still getting some but it has to be close to the end
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Post by steiny on Sept 26, 2018 12:31:22 GMT -5
Mine is still mounted on my boat.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 20:17:38 GMT -5
Saw 1 hummingbird today and two monarch butterflies.
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Post by jimstc on Sept 29, 2018 12:45:12 GMT -5
Hummers are still here in Central IN. Not as many. Two with one dominant one. Goldfinches have disappeared
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Post by Russ Koon on Oct 5, 2018 10:32:37 GMT -5
Saw our resident one again today. She's taking longer drinks now, and doesn't seem so busy guarding the food source as she was a week ago.
All the expert advice I could find on the net says that the "stop feeding them so they will fly away when they're supposed to" advice is outdated and incorrect, but you have to wonder when it's October.
Think I'll take the hummer feeder down when it gets low again rather than refill it, just to be on the safe side. Got a few others to feed other birds through the winter, and we'll just use the same hooks to hang a couple of those.
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 5, 2018 11:19:46 GMT -5
I still have two. One on each feeder. One more refill and they get cut off.
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Post by jimstc on Oct 5, 2018 12:30:20 GMT -5
Still have two here
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Post by bartiks on Oct 7, 2018 19:26:17 GMT -5
I've always wondered how far their migration takes them. If they go to México it must take them all but 20 minutes to get there, man those things are fast.
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Post by bartiks on Oct 7, 2018 19:26:40 GMT -5
I've always wondered how far their migration takes them. If they go to México it must take them all but 20 minutes to get there, man those things are fast.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2018 19:44:24 GMT -5
Still have them here on the far west side of Indianapolis. If I recall correctly, it isn`t so much temperatures that send them on their migration route, but the same thing that partially drives the white-tail rut: photoperiod...they`ll be heading out soon.
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