FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Just out of curiosity

["Michael Hamm" <hamm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Given the fact that hummers seem so territorial and drive other hummers =
away from the feeders, how can you sustain 90 to 120 birds? We feed too, =
but I sense that each feeder sustains only a couple of birds because =
they defend these feeders so intensely.

-----Original Message-----
From: SSWEEN6400@xxxxxxx [mailto:SSWEEN6400@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:16 PM
To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [birdky] Boyd county hummers

In about 20 years of R/T Hummingbird feeding (6 feeders) this is our =
"BIG"=20
year also.  Around the middle of August they were eating more than 30 =
ozs of=20
nectar per day!  Bob Sargent opined that we must have had between 90 and =
120=20
birds during this peak period.  The last bird seen at the feeders was on =
the=20
13th.  The latest date ever for us here in NE Ky.

Steve Sweeney =20
Boyd Co.






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