Hormones are greater than even free food. You don't. Keep feeding them as long as they keep coming to your feeder. Adult male hummingbirds usually leave in summer, months before the females and young. Keep your hummingbird feeders up until there are no more hummingbirds.
Take your hummingbird feeders down for the winter two weeks after you see the last hummingbird. There is no need to take your hummingbird feeders down in winter if you live there! In fact, Anna's Hummingbirds nest from late December into February! From Texas to Florida some hummingbirds of several species are rare winter visitors--especially near the coast.
Keep feeding all winter as long as there are hummingbirds! Is a late hummingbird just moving through, or will it stay to spend the winter? Hummingbird migration lasts into November. If you still have any hummingbirds by mid-December, they will likely remain through the winter. Such wintering birds may remain in place until March or April! To keep hummingbird feeders from freezing in winter you may place the feeder near an incandescent porch light that provides some heat.
If that's not practical, bring the feeder into your home well after dark. Hummingbirds feed well after dusk on cold winter nights. Put the feeder out at dawn so that cold hummers have some room-temperature calories to warm up with on cold winter mornings. I wrote an article on how to keep your hummingbird feeder from freezing in winter, if you have hummingbirds in winter. In this section I use real data from eBird to determine when regular hummingbirds are present in each state in the United States.
Then you can know when to set up and take down your feeders based on birds in your area. If I mention hummingbirds in winter then that species occurs regularly, even if very rarely.
Most states have had several rare hummingbird species show up in winter over the years, but not regularly enough to mention or expect. But that rare hummingbird will only show up at your feeder if your feeder is set up with fresh nectar! This chart summarizes the timing in the text that follows in the next section. It tells you exactly when to feed hummingbirds.
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds arrive in Alabama about the 2nd week of March and depart Alabama about the 1st week of November.
Put out your hummingbird feeders in Alabama by the first week of March. Take them down in mid-November if you haven't seen any hummingbirds in 2 weeks. Rufous Hummingbirds arrive in Southeast and Southcentral Alaska the first week of April and depart at the end of August. Anna's Hummingbirds are most common from late August to late April in Southeast and southcentral Alaska.
They are less common in summer. A few Costa's Hummingbirds have shown up as rarities in fall in Alaska. Keep your hummingbird feeders up year round in Southeast and Southcentral Alaska. Check a range map or eBird for what hummingbirds are expected in your Arizona county. Many hummingbird species are found only in Southern or Southeastern Arizona. Blue-throated Mountain-gems are year-round residents in Southern Arizona.
Lucifer Hummingbirds arrive in Southern Arizona in the last week of March and remain until the first week of October. Black-chinned Hummingbirds arrive in Arizona the first week of March and depart at the end of October. Broad-tailed Hummingbirds arrive in Arizona the 1st week of March and depart the first week of November. Rufous Hummingbirds migrate through Arizona in spring from mid-February to mid-May.
Rufous-hummingbirds migrate through Arizona in fall from the 1st week of July to the first week of November. Violet-crowned Hummingbirds arrive in Southern Arizona the 2nd week of January and depart in mid-November. White-eared Hummingbirds arrive in Southeastern Arizona the 2nd week of May and depart the first week of September. If you live in Arizona keep a bunch of hummingbird feeders up year round! Ruby-throated Hummingbirds arrive in Arkansas the last week of March and depart in the middle of November.
Put up your hummingbird feeders in Arkansas by the middle of March. Take your hummingbird feeders down in December if you haven't seen any hummingbirds in 2 weeks. Black-chinned Hummingbirds arrive in California the last week of March and depart the last week of September.
Costa's Hummingbirds are year-round residents in the deserts of Southern California. Rufous Hummingbirds migrate through California in spring from mid-February to the 3rd week of May. Fall migration starts immediately; Rufous Hummingbirds migrate through California in fall from mid-June to the end of September.
Allen's Hummingbirds are resident in coastal Southern California. Calliope Hummingbirds arrive in California the first week of April and depart in mid-August. Residents of California should keep their hummingbird feeders up all year. Black-chinned Hummingbirds arrive in Colorado in mid-April and depart the 1st week of October.
Broad-tailed Hummingbirds arrive in Colorado the 2nd week of April and depart in mid-October. Rufous Hummingbirds pass through Colorado in fall migration from late June through September. Calliope Hummingbirds pass through Colorado in fall migration from the 1st week of July to the 3rd week of September.
Put your hummingbird feeders out in Colorado by the 1st of April. Take your feeders down in November if you haven't seen any hummingbirds in 2 weeks. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds arrive in Connecticut in mid-April and depart in mid-October. Put your hummingbird feeders out in early April in Connecticut. Take your feeders down in November if you haven't seen a hummingbird in 2 weeks. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds arrive the first week of April in Delaware and depart in mid-October.
Put your hummingbird feeders out by April 1st in Delaware. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are found year-round in Florida, more abundantly during the spring and fall migrations. Peak numbers are found from late March to mid-May and then again from the first week of June to the 1st week in November. Many other hummingbirds have been reported in Florida.
Black-chinned Hummingbirds and Rufous Hummingbirds have wintered. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds arrive the 2nd week of March in Georgia and most depart by November. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and Rufous Hummingbirds are rare but regular in winter. Black-chinned Hummingbirds and Calliope Hummingbirds are even more rare in winter in Georgia.
Keep your hummingbird feeders up all year in Georgia. If you haven't seen any hummingbirds for 3 weeks by mid-December, go ahead and take down your feeders until the beginning of March. Hummingbirds aren't likely to move around much in winter.
No hummingbirds live in Hawaii. But there are many other colorful tropical birds. Honeycreepers are nectar eaters, but apparently are only attracted to native flowers, not nectar feeders. Too bad, because most types are endangered and could use the help.
Black-chinned Hummingbirds arrive in Idaho in early April and depart in mid-October. Anna's Hummingbirds are rare visitors to Idaho. Some birds remain all year, but most are winter visitors. Most arrive in September and depart the 1st week of March.
Broad-tailed Hummingbirds arrive in late April and depart by the 3rd week of September. Rufous Hummingbirds arrive the 2nd week of April and depart the 1st week of October. Calliope Hummingbirds arrive the 1st week of April and depart in late September. Put up your hummingbird feeders the end of March in Idaho. Take down your feeders about November 1st if you haven't had any hummingbirds in 2 weeks. Put up your hummingbird feeders in Illinois the 1st week of April.
Take down your feeders by December if you haven't seen any hummingbirds in 2 weeks. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds arrive in Indiana about the 1st week of April and depart by the end of October. Put up your hummingbird feeders in Indiana in late March. Take down your feeders in early December if you haven't seen any hummingbirds in 2 weeks.
Put up your hummingbird feeders in Iowa in mid-April. Take down your feeders in late November if you haven't seen any hummingbirds in 2 weeks. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds arrive in Kansas about the 2nd week of April and depart in late October. Rufous Hummingbirds are rare fall migrants in Kansas, from July through September. Put up your hummingbird feeders in Kansas in early April. Take your feeders down in late November if you haven't seen any hummingbirds in 2 weeks. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds arrive in Kentucky the last week of March and depart by the end of November.
Put out your hummingbird feeders in Kentucky in mid-March. Take down your feeders by mid-December if you haven't seen any hummingbirds in 2 weeks. The bulk of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds arrive in Louisiana the 1st week of March and depart by November.
However, many also spend the entire winter. Black-chinned Hummingbirds winter in Louisiana, arriving in September and remaining through April. Broad-tailed Hummingbirds winter in Louisiana, most arrive in mid-November and depart in early February.
Some arrive earlier and stay later. Rufous Hummingbirds winter in Louisiana, arrive the 1st week of August and depart in April. Calliope Hummingbirds winter in Louisiana, arrive in mid-November and depart in mid-April. Buff-bellied Hummingbirds winter in Louisiana, arrive in mid-September and depart in April.
You may get a "winter hummer" as we did 5 years ago. I live in the south, the middle of the state of Alabama. I have kept feeders up year round for the last 10 years. Usually 3 feeders. If it is going to freeze, and we don't get too many freezing days here in the south, I will rig up a brooder light over the feeders.
Same kind that is used for baby chicks. It keeps the air warm around the feeders and keeps them from freezing. We had our first and only winter hummer 5 years ago. It showed up November 31st and stayed thru December 16th.
We saw him everyday but one. I contacted the late Bob Sargent and sent him photos of our bird. Bob and his wife Martha are hummer experts and capture and band winter hummers all along the south.
Bob and Martha showed up at my home 3 days later with a cage and a banding kit. We removed all feeders but one and put it in the trap cage. The hummer flew around it awhile but eventually went inside and Bob released the trap door that he was holding open with fishing line. He sat the cage on a little table and reached in and grasped the little hummer. He immediately went to examining the bird. He said we had a 6 month old Rufus hummingbird that had migrated from the northwest, probably from Alaska, Oregon or Washington.
It's amazing that this bird had flown over miles and ending up in my yard in Calera, Alabama. Bob banded the hummer and logged all info, weight, size, etc My wife who was so excited got to hold the hummer and release him back to the skies.
He did return and stayed with us thru December 16th. Then he was just gone. It attaches by two suction cups right on the window. It's easy to refill and clean. We can see our favorite birds as close as we wish! In fact, I love to hold it in my hand when I take it out with fresh sugar water in it. The hummingbirds buzz around my head and then hover for a quick sip.
I feel the vibration of the wings as it is communicated to the feeder through their bills. Click the photo at left for 4-second QuickTime movie. Pentax Papiliio. Even if you already own binoculars, this one will let you see something special. Nothing else lets you look at a hummingbird this close. It was made for watching butterflies Papilio means butterfly. But it's great for hummingbirds, too. Red coloring is not necessary and the chemicals could prove to be harmful to the birds.
Steps: Mix sugar and boiling water until sugar is dissolved. Cool and fill feeder. Hang up your feeder outside and wait for the hummingbirds to come.
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