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Re: Hummingbirds - Still Perplexed
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Susan McCoy <[log in to unmask]>
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Susan McCoy <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 8 Jun 2014 18:48:40 -0400
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We are having the same experience on  Sargent St in  Norwich - we typically have hummers at the feeder all summer.  They arrived the week of Mother's Day this year, we started feeding them, and as of 1-2 weeks ago they disappeared and the feeder stands unvisited.  I too am fastidious about keeping the feeder clean and replenished with fresh sugar water.
Could they have decided to go further north?   Could there be something in the water (unlikely if this is experience of folks with different water sources), or, as Connie says, a disease of some kind?   I wonder, is anyone not noticing a decline in activity?

> On Jun 8, 2014, at 5:30 PM, Connie Snyder <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> ​Thanks to everyone who has offered theories to my query regarding disappeared hummingbirds.  This list is so helpful and heart-warming for amateurs like me. 
> 
> However, today, while visiting a farm on Tucker Hill Road in Thetford, I learned that they had half-a-dozen hummers zooming around their feeder until about a week ago.  Now, there are none there either.
> 
> I have never had this happen before, nor had she.  Troubling...
> 
> Hope there is not a disease going around.
> 
> Connie Snyder
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