Tame hummingbirds

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Several years ago we had our trailer up in Flagstaff on the edge of the national forest. They were having a drought, and when we put up a hummingbird feeder, we had dozens of hummers at our one small feeder. So we put up another, and another and yet another. We had a total of 4 feeders set in about a 25 foot circle with two hanging off the front window awning. Early in the morning we would be awakened by about 80 hungry hummers. When I would go out to fill the feeders, they would land on my head and shoulders, and when I hung up the full feeders, those that had to wait would drink from my hands. We filled the feeders two or three times a day.

We never had such a throng again. It was just a very dry year and their natural food was not available. But it was an experience we will never forget.
 
Neat, we only have a pair at this house. They were here earlier this summer and will come back in the fall before they head south.

My house in NC had multiple pairs that would dive bomb and visit us on the porch.

We must have 6 or 8 feeders out here hoping to get more. We even found their little nest in our bushes.

I turned one of the laser humming bird sierra's for my wife for mothers days this year.
 
That was pretty cool... we have two feeders out and about 5 or 6 that hang around...they're fun to watch buzz around... haven't had any luck with them feeding out of my hand, but haven't tried either....

When we were in Tucson back in '95... we went to the Natural Museum where they had a humming bird aviary... you could sit on benches around the aviary and the hummers would feed around you and weren't afraid.... I think they had several varieties of them there... really fun thing to do - sitting and watching the birds.
 
Hope they aren't using food dye or they going to be some dead hummingbirds.

I feed them here ever summer but most of mine are extremely aggressive towards other hummers. You would never see them gathered around my feeders like that. Soon as a couple other come around it's a fight. Fun to watch them dive on each other in battle.

If you want to hand feed though last year I saw some interesting feeders on amazon. They were long thin glass that were attached to a base. You got the birds used to that, and then you could remove it from the base and hold it in your hand.
 
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