On Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 6:50 PM Mag Tait <magtait1...> wrote:
> Definitely going through a lot of nectar here in Hamburg with lots of
> chirping and aerial acrobatics. I love this time of year.
> I just had a conversation that ended with my being declared wrong with a
> neighbor who said she saw a larger hummingbird at her feeder that
> definitely wasn’t a ruby throated because it didn’t have a red throat and
> was larger than the ruby throated she had seen near it.
> I told her that while it is possible that she saw a different species, it
> would be a rarity, etc., etc. and that it was likely a female and then just
> gave up.
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>
> On Aug 19, 2025, at 6:12 PM, Allen Chartier <amazilia3...> wrote:
>
>
> Hopefully you keep your hummingbird feeders out of reach, as bears will go
> after them too.
>
> Allen T. Chartier
> Inkster, Michigan
> Email: <amazilia3...>
> Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihummingbirdguy/collections/ > Website/Blog: http://mihummingbirdguy.blogspot.com/ >
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 2:57 PM Dody Wyman <dody...> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Allen! I totally misjudged how much the young look like adult
>> females. I know they have a long way to go from here, and they are
>> obviously tanking up at every opportunity.
>>
>> As an aside, we don’t feed any other songbirds here because we don’t want
>> to attract the bears. So the hummers give us great pleasure to watch and
>> listen to!
>>
>> Dody
>>
>> On Aug 19, 2025, at 2:20 PM, Allen Chartier <amazilia3...> wrote:
>>
>> Dody,
>>
>> Young male and young female hummingbirds look like adult females, and are
>> surely in the mix. Adult males leave the UP by Labor Day and probably
>> sooner from the Keweenaw.
>>
>> Allen T. Chartier
>> Inkster, Michigan
>> Email: <amazilia3...>
>> Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihummingbirdguy/collections/ >> Website/Blog: http://mihummingbirdguy.blogspot.com/ >>
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 11:54 AM Dody Wyman <dody...> wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of hummingbirds, we are at our cabin on Lake Superior in the
>>> Keweenaw Peninsula. I have three hummer feeders, fill them about once
>>> every day, and have anywhere between 7 and 15 or so at one time arguing
>>> over them. They are all females… Is this because the males have gotten a
>>> head start south? It’s an amazing sight to watch. Starts at dawn and goes
>>> well into dusk most days.
>>>
>>> Dody
>>>
>>> On Aug 19, 2025, at 6:13 AM, Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...> wrote:
>>>
>>> A couple days ago I heard the very distinctive call of a Yellow-Billed
>>> Cuckoo nearby and it made me remember I’d heard this before in other places
>>> in Michigan but always at this time of year. I was not able to spot the
>>> bird and it’s call was too faint for Merlin (on my phone) or my Birdweather
>>> PUC to capture. Is August noted for post-fledge dispersal or are these
>>> birds engaged in some kind of migratory or pre-migratory or territorial
>>> establishment behavior at this time of year? Secondly, I’ve been outdoors
>>> enough lately to be treated to the Ruby-Throated air show. Just putzing
>>> around the yard while the Hummingbirds engage in aerial combat or warfare
>>> or mating when they come within a foot of my head and do whatever they do
>>> to make their feathers rattle. In all cases it seems one is pursuing
>>> another at high speed and it seems the sound produced is quite
>>> intentional. For modelers, I’m wondering what “scale speeds” they move at
>>> and how many “G” forces they subject themselves to?
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