Humming Birds

I have 2 feeders.I have only seen 1 all summer.My neighbor use to have teens of them.She noticed there were several laying on the ground.She had an electric fence .The were setting on the fence and dropping like flys.Too much voldage.

It is just a general cluelessness about nature. There are lots of people who are SHOCKED that members of the deer family lose their antlers every winter, for example. Ignorance is bliss, I suppose.

I love talking my inlaws from the city out into our land. They get lost, they are shocked at the life that exists out in the rural areas. It changes attitudes about perceptions of the state of the world. It is not all pavement!!! It is not all polluted!!! We are not short of trees!!!
I swear, if I wasn't so far out in the boonies, I would run a "get to know agriculture/wildlife" ranch, and teach the clueless. LOL

Where were they grounding out?

Hummingbirds do have legs. When I was raising some goats behind a electric fence I was quit often removing dead hummingbirds from the fence. What the do is land on the fence right next to the yellow insulators and then stick their beak down inside the insulator and touch the metal fence post, this electrocutes them very dead. Most of the time when I would be removing them they would be hanging upside down on the fence, dead.

The electric fence companies need to change the color of the insulators.

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I have several hummers here hanging around-have to fill 3 feeders daily....
its so dry & flowers not doing good-things looks pitiful here unless its been watered then-its just alive & not doing to well...

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It may just be too hot. Last year we had a TON of them, so much so that I had to have feeders that weren't in eyesight of one another b/c they would fight over them. This year, so far, I have only ever seen one female. She is very grateful when I fill the feeder, though. She lives in the tree right next to where I have the feeder hung on our porch. She normally only comes out at sunrise and at sundown b/c hummingbirds typically don't like heat. That may explain the lack of numbers here, also.

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Here in the high desert of CO, we have lots this year. Broadtailed, Black chinned and recently the Rufus have come in droves. We do a Hummingbird study at Mesa Verde National Park, - banding them once a month. There are about the usual numbers, I'm told. At my home I have three feeders out, and the one they like the best has to be filled twice a day - it holds a quart.