Our hummingbirds (along with all the other birds) have gone into hiding somewhere. We've seen a few hawks floating around, one so bold it spent a few hours sitting on the neighbors fence, no doubt waiting to make a snack out of their little dog.

If the hawk eats the neighbor's dog, hope the hawk knows how to spit out the fur.

I love hummingbirds. I rarely get them but I do usually get an Oriole each summer. Although not as small as hummingbirds they also prefer to eat nectar but from oranges. For something so small they are very brave birds. My parents have several that visit their deck flowers even one's right beside a person or a dog. I say dog because they have rockers on their deck and the dog sits in one and rocks too just like a people.

Now that must be a sight! Seeing a dog rocking in a rocker! Is this 'rocking dog' elderly? :)

Actually she is but she has been doing it since she was young. She's a big lab/ Shepard mix. It is hilarious! Sometimes everyone else in inside and you pass by the window on a beautiful day and she' s out there just rocking away. I think she learned it watching my parents, that is their favorite place to start their morning with a cup of coffee.

Hey there dear Burmuda , I can really relate to your hummingbird deal. they do the same thing to me and husband Jim ,who really hurt his arm trying to feed the little critters after dark! No more of that for him. Yes, they do make a racket and they will get in your face. And buzz you like a rocket. at first I thought it was a big bug flying by my head real close. I always had this fairy tale thought that they are as sweet as they look. Well, NO. I actually saw one pinning down another one on the patio floor and pecking him and the poor thing on the patio was making a big racket. But you know,we miss them when they go. and they always come back the next yr. Husband buys the coarse sugar at Dollar General and makes the liquid himself and they love it. let's enjoy them while we can. Bye!

Bermuda are humming birds normal in your area? I have only seen two in my entire life....one here and one in Canada. I really enjoy your descriptions of the daily life of your three. Could it be that they are mum, dad and teen age off spring?

The garden variety of birds in North America are so much more colourful than what we have here.
Our smaller birds are very shy. It's the black bird that shines with their glorious singing in the spring. Other wise we have 4 doves (all named) who live here permanently. I put out seeds for them where we can watch them. Of the four there is just one couple. We know for sure that one is a widower and he seems in no rush to find a new mate. The other fellow is a batchelor and hasn't showed any signs of seeking a mate either. I think it's a home for seniors we're running here.

LOL! It does sound like we three- me, you Mary and Jenorma- are running a hotel for our feathered friends. Yes, hummingbirds pass through the southern states when migrating to and fro from Canada. Arizona, California and Texas and South America have large populations of different hummingbird varieties. Have you tried to draw them by offering them 'sugar water'
(without the red food dye) in a RED colored feeder? I make my own sugar 'nectar' for the feeders by mixing either a 3-to-1 or 4-1 ratio of white granulated sugar to boiling water: that would be 3 cups of water to 1 cup of water that is boiled to dissolve the sugar for two minutes, then allowed to cool to room temperature before I fill the feeders I clean. I clean the feeders in hot soapy water with a touch of bleach, rinse very well and fill with fresh 'nectar' every 7 days. I use the 3:1 ratio to try to 'fatten' them up, especially in the Spring and Fall months because of such long distances that they fly during migration. DH and I feel we can tell when a new and very hungry hummer comes to our feeders just from the amount of time they spend eating- they feed almost desperately constantly dipping, dipping, dipping their beaks into the feeder ports.
It is possible that the hummingbird 3 are Mom, Dad and teenager but I doubt it. I believe all 3 hummers are the 'ruby-throated' hummingbirds but none of them have the red gorget on the neck, which I think makes them either female or young recently fledged males who haven't the adult feathering. They were at it again today, diving at each other and chasing each other like speed demons through the backyard. I do believe that all the 'sugar water' they are eating from the feeders is making them hyperglycemia and acting like kids who have had too much candy to eat. Only by the Grace of God have they avoided any collisions into each other or miscalculated the distance of flying full speed into the seven-foot backyard wall!
Are those 'morning doves" that you feed? We spoil them by offering them such 'goodies', don't we?

I too have hummingbirds "visiting", but I don't have a feeder for them. I do have some perennial plants they like, but thankfully those plants aren't by the areas we sit. I have enough problems with neighbors cats, and some of the various wildlife we have had in the area - groundhogs, opossum, sometimes deer, ducks, geese and wild turkeys in the fall. It amazes me since we are basically in the city - not rural area. However, a couple miles north there is a wetland sanctuary, and I think some of these critters come from that area. I don't need hummingbirds dive bombing me too!

So funny you call your hummingbirds Larry, Curly and Moe. I have three goldfish and when I was driving home from the pet store I couldn't think of three names that went together and then I thought of Larry, Curly and Moe. When I got home, Ididn't' say anything about names to anyone and my daughter asked what I was naming them. My husband shouts from the kitchen Larry, Curly and Moe. Two great minds or in this case three great minds think alike.
Jacquie