Attendance at my feeders slacks off dramatically at a certain point in June
-- I have always assumed they spread out to their nesting sites. Attendance
picks up again later when they bring their youngsters to the feeders -- and
THAT is fun to watch! (These are all RUFOUS.) They don't seem to actually
leave the area until later in the summer.

>Jacki <seaotter at eskimo.com> asked;
>
>"It seems that as soon as my rhodies and azaleas stopped blooming, all "my"
>hummingbirds disappeared. What on earth happened?"
>
> were your hummers rufous hummingbirds? if so, i think that they
> are leaving the area and heading south now. the anna's hummers
> stay in the area all year 'round.
>
> Deborah Wisti-Peterson email:nyneve at u.washington.edu
>Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
> Visit me on the web: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~nyneve/
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