Where have all the hummers gone?
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The majority of these people had seen birds at their feeders earlier in the season and are now puzzled by the lack of visitors. Of course, I can’t tell anyone specifically why birds are not appearing in the yard, but it does help to know something about the behavior of hummingbirds.
The birds typically come into our area in mid-April. The numbers usually peak during the last two weeks of April as the migrants move through, then drop off as some of the birds continue on to the north to breed. By about mid-May, the males that remain in our area set up breeding territories, which they vigorously defend.
There are never “pairs of hummingbirds” as we normally think of that term.... // Lynchburg News and Advance