PMS Run Amock or The Hummingbird From Hell!!

05 Sep 03 | Bert

[bert]

I guess everyone is allowed a vanity...... this is mine

[zygoat]

I enjoyed it. Kinda debunks the leftists' claim that conservatives want to destroy the enviroment.

[Born Conservative]

Nice story. I also have a lot of chipmunks in my yard (probably from the sunflower seeds I have in my birdfeeder). However, there is one less as of yesterday; Mrs. BC tells me that our Springer Spaniel dispatched one of them yesterday to Chipmunk Heaven.

[headsonpikes]

Our summer hummingbirds( a dozen+) left two weeks ago for points south - I miss them already!

[egarvue]

We have a hummingbird feeder in our back yard, and last week we had at least five or six hummingbirds feeding at it until one hyperagressive male decided that it was HIS feeder. Vicious little monster, he kept up a running fight for four days, attacking anything and everything that came within five feet of that feeder. I never realized that hummingbirds could be so violent.

[Who dat?]

I watched this action several times and began to wonder where the aggressor came from. Try as I would, I could not determine the source.

Ours are Anna’s hummingbirds. We have a feeder in front of the house and one in the back. If you look around you’ll notice that they’ll be staked out somewhere in view of the feeder. They can be quite a ways off, but they’ll be watching it.

Just before the sun goes down we’ll have up to nine hummingbirds at the feeder. Only four can perch and eat at one time, so the rest hover around until someone leaves.

They’re also pretty sneaky. Hummingbird A will land at the feeder. Directly hummingbird B will swoop in and chase him off. That’s when hummingbird C pops up and eats uninterrupted for a minute or so.

They’re sort of fun to watch. Ours stay here year round.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Nice vanity.

I've noticed the same behavoir in the hummingbirds that inhabit my yard.

[Peach]

I miss our hummingbirds too. They left two weeks ago (from SC). We had approx. 15 hummingbirdsflying about two feeders all at once, dive bombing and providing infinite enjoyment and entertainment.

[Vigilantcitizen]

"I miss our hummingbirds too. They left two weeks ago (from SC). We had approx. 15 hummingbirdsflying about two feeders all at once, dive bombing and providing infinite enjoyment and entertainment."

Mine are still around, and I don't live that far from you here in west Georgia.

[bert]

Vicious little monster....

Amazing isn't it. So very small and so very bad.

[Just another Joe]

Have any of you folks ever seen a hummingbird marked like a bumblebee?
Several weeks ago the little woman and I stepped outside our front door on a Saturday and there, hovering around the snapdragons and the butterfly bush, was a hummingbird about half the size of my thump marked almost exactly like a bumblebee.
I had never seen, or heard, of one like it.

No, it wasn't a bumble bee, it was a hummingbird. I've had three vodka sours two weeks ago.

[bert]

Can't tell for certain, but it might be a moth. There is a large moth, smaller than the hummingbird but when hovering at a flower closely resembles one.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Just another Joe]

Can't tell for certain, but it might be a moth.

No, we were within three feet of this little winged wonder. It was a hummingbird.

[justshe]

We saw the same here (Oregon)....WAY smaller. Hubs thought it might be a 'baby hummingbird' whose coloring would change as it grew.

[Just another Joe]

Hubs thought it might be a 'baby hummingbird' whose coloring would change as it grew.

Never thought about that. It could be.
Protective coloring for the young?

[CONSERVE]

ping
Thought you all would enjoy this especially DJ

[Teacup]

Oh wow! Thanks for the ping Conserve. I have sap suckers, wrens, chicadees,Titmouse, Cardnials and hummingbirds out here too. My birdies all seem to get along just fine. Our stray kitty, Katie lives on our patio where the bird feeders are. (The bird feeders were there long before Katie came to live with us). Every once in a while Katie will mess with the bird, but all is peaceful at the Teacup home, LOL.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

The smallest hummingbird is the bee hummingbird of Cuba, 2 1/4 inches, including the tail and beak. The male has a red hed, green back and light colored breast.

There is a hummingbird moth -- it greatly resembles a hummingbird in it's flight and hovering ability. But it is a moth.

The solution to feeder competition is to hang lots of feeders. We have 6 on the front porch, placed between the columns, and have twenty or so birds at a time. Sometimes we hang the feeders on different sides of the house, so that if there's a bully he/she has more trouble guarding all the feeders.