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Ruby-throated hummingbird in today's pouring rain (Original Post) Walleye Jun 2023 OP
Beautiful! I've got one in my backyard that basically louslobbs Jun 2023 #1
Yes I see the same thing, sit in a tree, and dive bombs I've got about three females now Walleye Jun 2023 #2

louslobbs

(3,416 posts)
1. Beautiful! I've got one in my backyard that basically
Fri Jun 23, 2023, 07:05 PM
Jun 2023

owns all of the Firecracker Penstemon flowers. Any other hummingbird comes near those flowers and it’s a nasty chase scene. Beautiful bird, but very territorial. There’s like a thousand, red, horn shaped flowers, and no other hummingbirds are allowed to gather nectar. Sometimes that little bird sits in a tree watching and waiting…I can just barely see the little silhouette sitting there on a branch. So cute, but really greedy.

Walleye

(36,371 posts)
2. Yes I see the same thing, sit in a tree, and dive bombs I've got about three females now
Fri Jun 23, 2023, 07:50 PM
Jun 2023

I have about six feeders out there but they always fight over the same one. Quite a display of aerial combat this evening in the rain

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