hummingbirds!

Sherry Taylor

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Jul 25, 2021, 2:35:14 PM7/25/21

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For the past two weeks I am seeing an increasing number of hummingbirds at my feeder. They have almost finished 4 cups of nectar water in three days! Big numbers of Rufous and Anna's plus a few Black-chinned and Calliope. The diversity of species is unusual at my house. I sometimes get big groups of Rufous but nothing like this.

Any thoughts on why so many birds? Fires, lack of flowers?

Sherry Taylor

Jerry Zatorski

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Jul 25, 2021, 4:04:32 PM7/25/21

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I have also have a big influx of hummers at my feeders. I fill my feeders just about daily right now. Many Rufous plus resident Black-chinned & Costa's and the occasional Callope. Anna's haven't come back down from the mountains yet, and once the Rufous came in about July 4th weekend I haven't seen any Broad-tailed since then. A possible combination of drought and fires could be leading the RUHU to our area.

J. Zatorski

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Sherry Taylor

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Jul 26, 2021, 10:05:16 AM7/26/21

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Sorry, forgot to mention. I am in Mammoth.

Sherry Taylor

On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 8:45 PM Richard S Cimino <rsci...@gmail.com> wrote:

Where are you located? I’m in Lee Vining.
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Brad Hacker

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Jul 26, 2021, 8:37:05 PM7/26/21

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Not just on the east side: notable increase in Santa Barbara too, from ~20 birds to ~80 over the past couple weeks.
Annas > Allens > Black-Chinned.

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