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Index of Subjects --bcaec50162a1a078d104c6e98327 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Larry, happens every year at my place, and every year we get a few injured ones that have been bodyslammed into the window by another (just released one yesterday in fact ). Hummingbirds are cute but obnoxious :) Helene Ps, i sometimes jokingly call it testosterone poisoning as it's usually males guarding the feeder and fighting On Aug 10, 2012 10:35 AM, "Larry at Bogan.ca" <larry@bogan.ca> wrote: > All during the summer we had one family of hummingbirds, but then then in > the last two weeks there has been an influx of hummers. > > Now I have three feeders up and for awhile there was heavy feeding with as > many as seven or more hummers. They would share and feed together. There > has been a change in the last week and each of the feeders has a 'defender' > usually a male hummer. This bird will not let any other hummer feed at > 'its' feeder. It sits in a nearby tree or bush and if another hummer > approaches, dive bombs that bird away. > > At first I moved feeders around hoping to confuse the 'defender' but > quickly a bird takes up station at that feeder. Despite the number of > hummers being about the same, the feeding has declined dramatically. > > Has anyone else observed this seemingly, non-productive behaviour? > > Puzzled > Larry > -- > Larry Bogan > Cambridge Station, Nova Scotia > larry@bogan.ca > --bcaec50162a1a078d104c6e98327 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <p>Hi Larry, happens every year at my place, and every year we get a few in= jured ones that have been bodyslammed into the window by another (just rele= ased one yesterday in fact ). Hummingbirds are cute but obnoxious :)<br> Helene<br> Ps, i sometimes jokingly call it testosterone poisoning as it's usually= males guarding the feeder and fighting</p> <div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Aug 10, 2012 10:35 AM, "Larry at Bogan.c= a" <larry@bogan.ca> wrote:= <br type=3D"attribution"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:= 0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> All during the summer we had one family of hummingbirds, but then then in t= he last two weeks there has been an influx of hummers.<br> <br> Now I have three feeders up and for awhile there was heavy feeding with as = many as seven or more hummers. They would share and feed together. There ha= s been a change in the last week and each of the feeders has a 'defende= r' usually a male hummer. This bird will not let any other hummer feed = at 'its' feeder. It sits in a nearby tree or bush and if another hu= mmer approaches, dive bombs that bird away.<br> <br> At first I moved feeders around hoping to confuse the 'defender' bu= t quickly a bird takes up station at that feeder. Despite the number of hum= mers being about the same, the feeding has declined dramatically.<br> <br> Has anyone else observed this seemingly, non-productive behaviour?<br> <br> Puzzled<br> Larry<br> --<br> Larry Bogan<br> Cambridge Station, Nova Scotia<br> larry@bogan.ca<br> </blockquote></div> --bcaec50162a1a078d104c6e98327--
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