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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060908060406060002070000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I see this every summer at my feeder, with attendant decline in consumption! Eieanor Lindsay Seabright, St Margarets Bay On 10/08/2012 10:30 AM, Larry at 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 --------------060908060406060002070000 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <font size="+1">I see this every summer at my feeder</font><font size="+1">, with attendant decline in consumption!<br> <br> Eieanor Lindsay<br> Seabright, St Margarets Bay<br> <br> <br> </font> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/08/2012 10:30 AM, Larry at Bogan.ca wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:20120810103057.f0aa34a5cedcbb38e674e941@bogan.ca" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------060908060406060002070000--
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