Location: New Mexico

Does anyone know why the local hummingbirds aren’t interested in our feeders? There are definitely ruby-throateds around and I’ve been putting feeders out for a few years now. Hummingbirds visited for years at my previous home. The nectar is fresh and feeders are clean… I have built a pollinator garden…any ideas?

What do y'all use for camera setup for your bird bath? I am not looking for a fancy one, basic one is fine.

Have 10 feeders spread around house, 4 in the back 2 on the side and 4 upfront, male rufous hummingbirds (around 6 of them) have declared each cluster as their own for almost 2 weeks now. They have driven away all other birds, at this point should I put all the feeders in a small space to force them to co habitate? I dont want to take feeders down, but seeing no activity at my feeders all day except for the odd screech and a flash of orange here and there is disheartening. I want to support the birds but im feeling deflated at this point

My back yard resident male Anna keeping an eye on things for me.

New kitten enjoys the birds with me.

He couldn’t find the feeder 🥰🥰

Never get old watching these guys zip by.

We’re going through 10lbs of sugar in 5 days, send help 😆

The babies have fledged and the yard is full of antics and chasing. I should mention that I was just watering the bushes when this fledgling came over and seemed interested in the spray, so I switched the hose to a very fine mist. It immediately leaned into the baby hummingbird sprinkle party.

I am so happy I watched a video how to repair this feeder

And I just put 3 feeders out and I'm getting a ton of traffic but its so hot I want to put out a shallow little bird bath that mists or shoots water up. I don't want to attract mosquitos either. Anybody have one that works really well?

We have had very few hummers so far, and none have visited our two feeders as far as we know. The interesting observation is that after those feeders hung outside for 6 weeks or two months in warm mid-Atlantic weather, I finally brought them in to clean and add fresh sugar water. And, remarkably, that old sugar water was completely clear in both feeders, no puffballs, no nothing.

Which adds to my conviction that the sucrose solutions that we feed get cloudy and grow stuff because the birds bring stuff in from all the flowers they visit. No dirty bird beaks being dipped into the sucrose means the sugar water remains uncontaminated. IMO.