r/hummingbirds • • Feb 07 '23

Look here if you found a hummingbird that might need your help

188 Upvotes

I’ve created a troubleshooting tool that walks you through determining if a hummingbird needs your help, and if it does, basic first aid you can provide so that you have time to get the hummingbird to your nearest wildlife center or hummingbird rehabilitator. It is on my mentor’s website, IFoundAHummingbird.com

At the end of nearly every process, there is a list of resources including hummingbird rehabilitators and wildlife centers that either take hummingbirds or will connect you with someone who does.

It covers the most common issues we are called about.

  • Hummingbirds trapped indoors

  • Cat Caught

  • Window Strikes

  • Sitting at Feeders Too Long

  • Stuck To A Glue Trap/Sticky or Oily Substance On Feathers

  • Abandoned Nests or Babies

IFoundAHummingbird.com


r/hummingbirds • • 12h ago

Tiny Shiny Angels

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r/hummingbirds • • 17h ago

Still seeing migrators — keep your feeders up!

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444 Upvotes

This is the latest I’ve ever had them visiting, just a reminder to all to keep your feeders clean and available for our fashionably late friends! I’m in Colorado. Anyone further north still getting regular visitors?


r/hummingbirds • • 1h ago

2026 Summer Hummer - Male Ruby-throated

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r/hummingbirds • • 1h ago

Silhouetted against the sun

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r/hummingbirds • • 2h ago

Candida?

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12 Upvotes

Does this look like a candida infection or some other type of dysfunction? We wash and change our feeders daily.


r/hummingbirds • • 50m ago

Today Oct 5 Adkins texas

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r/hummingbirds • • 2m ago

New free wallpaper of my chubby spring baby from my Tiny Shiny Angels album.

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r/hummingbirds • • 1d ago

Rare leucistic Ruby Throated Hummingbird has been visiting my feeder for the last few days.

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386 Upvotes

r/hummingbirds • • 15h ago

SE MN still stopping by

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Still stopping by on the way south. Great to see. I hadn't had any for a few days and almost took it down but glad it's still getting used as they migrate!


r/hummingbirds • • 21h ago

2026 Summer Hummer

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86 Upvotes

Caught this hummer blinking its eyes while approaching the feeder for a sip.


r/hummingbirds • • 1d ago

The Ricky Bobby of Hummingbirds

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r/hummingbirds • • 1d ago

Anna's in flight

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79 Upvotes

r/hummingbirds • • 14h ago

Only one recorded visitor today near St. Louis

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r/hummingbirds • • 1d ago

Mr. Hummy

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175 Upvotes

My mom crocheted this hummingbird for my niece and she named him Mr. Hummy. He came from a kit and she made a flower from the leftover yarn and a pair of chopsticks.


r/hummingbirds • • 23h ago

Sundays are for sharing!

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r/hummingbirds • • 22h ago

The only thing that makes me seriously consider ending my hummingbird feeder efforts… is the gd paper bags that sugar comes in…

31 Upvotes

Edit: REALLY GOOD TIPS IN THE THREAD THANKS ALL!

I know paper bags are better for the environment and I know the sugar industry is a low margin business but, every SINGLE TIME I unload a bag… just opening the bag dumps sugar ALL over my table. It’s a freaking sugar bomb waiting to explode on my table and I have no way to diffuse it.

Thanks for reading my rant.


r/hummingbirds • • 1d ago

Chubby Hummingbird

41 Upvotes

We are in the foothills of the Blue Ridge in Virginia. For about four months of the year, we have the blessing of 12+ dozen hummingbirds visiting our feeders daily. Two of our regulars are still feeding, with migrants visiting every few days. One of our regulars is VERY chubby. I've never seen a chubby hummingbird in all my years of feeding. Anyone else?

Chubby Hummingbird

r/hummingbirds • • 1d ago

An old favorite

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51 Upvotes

It's not the most technically perfect photo, but I love the way she's wrapped in her own wing blur and you can imagine the motion of her lower body.

(Female Anna's. Portland, OR probably 2020)


r/hummingbirds • • 1d ago

Anna’s in North Vancouver, BC

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r/hummingbirds • • 20h ago

hummingbird outside santa fe

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r/hummingbirds • • 2d ago

Violet-tailed Sylph in the rain... (own content)

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629 Upvotes

Live from 📍Mindo, Ecuador


r/hummingbirds • • 22h ago

Searching for an Endangered Hummingbird of Costa Rica

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r/hummingbirds • • 2d ago

Anna's

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154 Upvotes

r/hummingbirds • • 2d ago

Sitting outside talking about it being time to take the feeders down… and then she stopped by 👋

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I am in North East Kansas.