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Donkees

(31,581 posts) Fri Jan 27, 2023, 08:14 PM Jan 2023

Hummingbird and Crocosmia

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Hummingbird and Crocosmia (Original Post) Donkees Jan 2023 OP

Very nice photos. dem4decades Jan 2023 #1

When they seem to disappear around here, the females are spending most of their time on the nests. Donkees Jan 2023 #2

dem4decades

(11,330 posts)

1. Very nice photos.

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Fri Jan 27, 2023, 08:24 PM

Jan 2023

Our hummingbird show up in early May, stay a while then disappear it seems. Then, after the Crocosmia blooms, they all come back and feast on the Crocosmia and then on all the other plants and feeders we have out for them. We have photos of them at the cigar plants but nothing as beautiful as your pics.

Donkees

(31,581 posts)

2. When they seem to disappear around here, the females are spending most of their time on the nests.

Reply to dem4decades (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 27, 2023, 09:27 PM

Jan 2023

Then feeding activity greatly increases as you say when there are more mouths to feed.

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