Same thing happened in my backyard also.
After maintaining the hummingbird feeder for almost an year, I though he
will never come and stopped filling the necter regularly. Couple of weeks
back when temperatures were freezing, my neighbour told me that they saw one
hummingbird at their (frozen) flowers. The same day I changed my necter. And
guess what, since next day I have one female Anna's coming to my feeder
regularly.

Narendra Bhagwat,
South Seattle.


>From: "Cliff Drake" <ardea at uswest.net>
>Reply-To: ardea at uswest.net
>To: "Tweeters" <TWEETERS at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: Anna's Hummingbird
>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 16:47:59 -0800
>
>Hi Tweets,
>
>I feel like such a bad human, I had a female Annas at my feeder this
>morning
>after I had given up on it, I hadn't cleaned or filled it in two or more
>weeks. It was the first visitor I've seen since the first day of winter
>last
>December even though I've been cleaning and refilling religously ever
>since.
>(Until recently) She visited every blossom twice and even tried the red
>top. I immediatly set the water to boil and cleaned the feeder as best I
>could, refilling it and setting it out as soon as it cooled. This afternoon
>I felt somewhat vindicated when a (the same?) female came for multiple
>trips
>about 4:15PM.
>
>I guess the moral is don't give up, even when the little hummers don't show
>up for months at a time.
>
>Cliff Drake
>Seattle
>ardea at uswest.net
>
>
>

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