I continue to entertain all four species, but mostly females and juveniles. There are a few males, but not many. Of course there’s no missing the the rufous males. Fields are dry, but the watered flower beds are hit by them

I’m down to four feeders and the rates have dropped off a little. Past experience was they quit over the next few weeks.

I’d say be careful trying to count hummers by feeder sightings. We had a bander come up a couple years ago and he banded 60-70 in a little over an hour with only one repeat; all others came only once. The speedy fellows look alike. I think a better way to guess population is feeder depletion since basically only hummers and hornets hit my feeders.

I’m not sure how migration works up here. I don’t see a spike in solution depletion, but rather a fairly steady rate; maybe some leave, some new ones show up and the current hatches swap somewhat evenly.

I copied my feeder curves from last few years. We didn’t start keeping data til mid year in 2015. Sorry size is so big, but it was not easy for me to do it. You can see steady rates and totals of 4 cup feeders emptied.. Gotta go fill a feeder as I’m being scolded through the front window.

Bill Moore
Hoot Owl
Inkom

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