[Tweeters] Hummers sharing feeder

[Mark Reinitz via Tweeters]

Hi.

My wife and I were just talking about the same thing! There were 2 females on the feeder this morning. This has happened several times lately. There were even times when a male sat on a nearby branch without shooing them away. Not something we’ve seen often.

Mark Reinitz
Sent from my iPad

On Feb 24, 2026, at 10:35 AM, Joan Miller via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


Hi Tweets

This winter hasn't been that bad, but I have seen many more instances of more than one hummingbird at a time at my feeder. They never used to tolerate another at the same time. Now I see two and occasionally a third using the feeder at once (there are four ports). Always females, but once in a while a male will join them. I think it's unusual. Maybe this behavior will change in spring and summer.

Anyone else notice this sharing behavior?

Joan Miller
West Seattle
jemsink at gmail dot com
_______________________________________________
Tweeters mailing list
Tweeters at u.washington.edu
http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/attachments/20260224/51cee7bc/attachment.html>