Mine are gone too! I haven't seen them in two weeks, and the feeders have been untouched.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CINDY!!!!!!!

I still have a few hummers. I have had to refill twice since the end of last week. They seem to stocking up. How much can something that small really hold? I thought they would be gone by now. It's getting colder now. My daughter had a frost warning last nite in Vermont.
Oh dear here it comes. (winter)
Diane

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buzz buzz buzz

http://s86.photobucket.com/albums/k103/Di_06/

There was one in my garden yesterday morning around 9:30. i dont know the temp but it was chilly. BF said it was 36* when he got up at 4:00.

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Summer Camp '07, July 14th weekend, won't you join us?
summer camp thread 1, 2, 3,4

I still have some here.....makes me sad that they will be leaving though, I watched that migration map earlier this year like a hawk to see if they'd made it into my area yet...

mine are still here in st louis!!

The little beauties are still here and getting fat as pigs feasting on the crimson Salvia and the Rose of Sharon shrubs. I was watering very early yesterday morning and a mist was rising from the ground (it was 54 degrees outside) and they were enjoying flying through the mist. I guess they thought it was their personal sauna.

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Rosie z7a

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i am seeing fewer of them and the feeders arent going down as fast!

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I know, Porter, I'm noticing the same thing here, so I'm content to enjoy the ones which are still coming around while I can. It's so sad to think of them leaving for the winter, but I can just look forward to their return in the spring. Of course, I guess we shouldn't be selfish about this because I'm sure that many other people want to enjoy them like we do, too! I just know I'm really going to miss them when they're gone!

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"Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen!"

Start Freakin', Deb!

BIG RED BIRD IN SNOW


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A bird in the hand......can sometimes be a mess.

What a beautiful bird, Thorny! Thanks so much for posting this picture, because it made me feel so much better! I've had cardinals all summer and I enjoy them too, but I tend to forget just how gorgeous and regal they look when they are out there in the white snow. They are such a beautiful sight to behold and it always warms my heart! Boy, mine sure can manage to go through a lot of food in the winter!

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"Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen!"

I HATE, HATE, HATE, Summer! I like to sit in my beach chaise lounge on my front lawn in my bathing suit with a glass of iced tea, and watch the snow accumulate on my bare chest and the frost crystals form in my beard. ONE WEEK 'TIL AUTUMN!!!!!

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A bird in the hand......can sometimes be a mess.

Hope you liked us-we're not as weird as you may hear.
I hate summer too ! Especially here. Rain is a treat, believe me. And we always hope for a cloudy, chilly Christmas because it's the closest thing we get to a "real" Christmas.
Nothing stranger looking than our fresh wreaths cooking in the sun on the front door.
But it's my home and I'm happy. Proud to be a third generation native too.
But still....... those red birds and a beautiful frost......... and sledding ! Oh, wow !

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You get the MOST birds at your feeders when it snows. As soon as I see it falling I grab my camera and pockets full of AA's and hit the fields. The rare and unusual birds show up at my feeders then. The ONLY time I get Ruby-Crowned Kinglets and Red-Bellied Woodpeckers at my feeders is when it snows. Then they flock to my suet cages. Winter is the time that Dark-Eyed Juncos, commonly called Snowbirds, are here and they flock to the feeders when it snows. Also the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, a Woodpecker, is here in the Winter ONLY. They do not eat seed or suet much, but instead drill holes in the trunks of trees and drink the sap that oozes out, hence their name. Many of the trees in my yard have perfect rings of holes drilled around the trunk spaced about 1 inch apart. It doesn't hurt the tree; it actually seems to be BENEFICIAL to the tree.

YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER (MALE)


SAPSUCKER HOLES




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A bird in the hand......can sometimes be a mess.

mine are gone too as of sat. i have dreaded this for weeks but now i guess i will focus on the other birds. winter is just round the corner and they need me now!

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Beyond this place, there be dragons!
http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p212/faerywatcher/

My Hummers left about a week or two ago also, Wendy. I thought you were in Jackson Colorado, But I see you are in Jackson County Tennessee. I am in Hermitage, Tennessee and live one mile east of Andrew Jackson's mansion, The Hermitage. We have at least three other Tennesseeans here that I know of, two in Dyersburg, and one in Knoxville. AFGREYPARROT, Cindy, is nearby in Kentucky.

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A bird in the hand......can sometimes be a mess.

Igraduated Madison High School in 1970.

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A bird in the hand......can sometimes be a mess.

I remember Lydias name. I went to elementary school in Johnson City and Chattanooga, TN and moved to Madison when I started Junior High. I lived on Old Hickory Blvd., locally called Halls Lane, about two blocks west of Madison High.

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A bird in the hand......can sometimes be a mess.

This is such a good thread I just had to add my two HB cents

The last day I saw my HB was on October 26, and it now seems like months ago. Winters are hard here for Hummer-addicts.

I'm gonna try the cannas next year. They're one of the few tropicals we can buy here.