Anyone else have an unusually large number of hummingbirds this year?

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Out in the garden the other year

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It's kind of funny when some people stop over our house now as we put a couple of feeders outside the front door so my wife can sit on the porch for tea and watch them.

Generally get a bunch, and when people are walking to our front door they'll jump when they here the hummingbirds come in to feed (per the last pic I posted, which isn't to far from the front door of the house).
 
   / Anyone else have an unusually large number of hummingbirds this year?
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We have only had a few birds of that color. It's amazing the color variations in birds.
 
   / Anyone else have an unusually large number of hummingbirds this year?
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This is a short Youtube video on the migration patterns from last year, 2024. It's worth a watch.


 
   / Anyone else have an unusually large number of hummingbirds this year? #1,114  
I thought I saw a hummingbird fly around the area outside my breakfast room window Saturday morning. So yesterday I cleaned up a feeder and made up some liquid. And today one came to visit. In past few years we only get maybe 4 - 5 birds. So we will wait to see how many we get this year.
 
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We have had one for a week or more. I don't know there is more then the one though. Hard to tell unless different species.
 
   / Anyone else have an unusually large number of hummingbirds this year?
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This a migration map for this year 2025. Scroll down just a little and it shows the birds in Kentucky and WV today. You can enlarge the map and check reported sightings in your area. Wife will put a feeder out maybe tomorrow and then more as the season progresses.

Even if things are slow for you, keep the feeders clean and fresh. HB's eat a ton of bugs early on but do your part and the birds will come. Some years more or less than others since cycles ebb and flow.

 
   / Anyone else have an unusually large number of hummingbirds this year?
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Looks like there in central WI now. We reside north of that.
They are close to us. We put up one feeder a little early because we have seen lone birds--scouts?--show up before the others. They seem to arrive with the timing of small bugs.
 
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We're in South Central KY. We put up two feeders last week but no customers yet that we're aware of. Should be any day now though.

As soon as I see the first birds. I put screens up in front of my garage doors. I don't garage my vehicles so I can easily get by the screen to do something.
 
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Getting close to spring peak season here, going through about 3/4 of a quart a day.
 

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