# I got a hummingbird - they're back

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 16, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-hummingbird-theyre-back/582041 "2011-05-16T00:07:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-hummingbird-theyre-back/582041/21 "2011-05-17T18:37:44Z")

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That’s what my wife says too. 😕

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**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-hummingbird-theyre-back/582041/22 "2011-05-17T19:13:42Z")

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I had one for about for about two days last fall. I saw one in my neighbors yard and put up the feeder. Then he was gone. Thinking I would get a jump on it this year I put the feeder up a couple of weeks ago and a hummer appeared within ten minutes. I saw him rarely for a couple of days and then nothing. Maybe I’m just catching them as they migrate through? I leave a couple of blocks from the beach on a barrier island in NJ. I had always assumed that this wasn’t hummingbird habitat - not alot of woods around.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-hummingbird-theyre-back/582041/23 "2011-05-17T20:37:44Z")

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> [@Markxxx](#):
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> I hear that hummingbirds are the bullies of the bird world. That if you don’t fix your feeders just right, you often get one bully hummingbird stopping all his hummingbird buddies from feeding, just 'cause he’s on a power trip 🙂

He wants to defend an easy, plentiful food source.  
That’s how you grow up to be a big hummingbird. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-hummingbird-theyre-back/582041/24 "2011-05-17T20:53:22Z")

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I have pics taken off my back deck… Can someone tell me how to post themMy daughter in law took them and sent them in a facebook file. I can’t figure how to not send the whole file of pics.

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