<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpd6e7733fyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have heard/read conflicting ideas over the years about adding additional feeders to try to break up the aggression: one theory is to have feeders out of sight of each other, the other is to have them relatively close--the thought being a territorial hummingbird can't simultaneously defend both feeders. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Anyone have any factual information on adding feeders?? I currently only have one hummingbird feeder.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">thanks,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Peggy Mundy</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Bothell, WA</div><div><br></div><div class="ydpd6e7733fsignature"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div></div></div>
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On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 10:05:41 a.m. PST, Steve Hampton <stevechampton@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp5ada8a69yiv7980788588"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:large;color:#073763;" class="ydp5ada8a69yiv7980788588gmail_default">There was an over-wintering Rufous Hummer near Port Townsend that was killed by an Anna's a few weeks ago. When the Rufuos was present, a dozen hummers would share the feeder. After it was gone, the feeder was ruled by a single Anna's. </div><div style="font-size:large;color:#073763;" class="ydp5ada8a69yiv7980788588gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-size:large;color:#073763;" class="ydp5ada8a69yiv7980788588gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div id="ydp5ada8a69yiv7980788588yqt57135" class="ydp5ada8a69yiv7980788588yqt5604857163"><div class="ydp5ada8a69yiv7980788588gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp5ada8a69yiv7980788588gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 9:55 AM creinsch <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:creinsch@comcast.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">creinsch@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp5ada8a69yiv7980788588gmail_quote">Dayna,<br clear="none">
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Over the years we have seen hummingbirds do a lot that appeared to us as <br clear="none">
strange. But, this morning, I saw an adult male Anna's attacking a <br clear="none">
younger (hatch year probably) bird on a feeder. The feeder has been <br clear="none">
defended by the adult for months, but I had never seen it do this. From <br clear="none">
my view in the kitchen at about 8am this morning, I could see the <br clear="none">
adult's head on the opposite side of the feeder, but could not make out <br clear="none">
what it was doing. Walking around to another window though, I could see <br clear="none">
it was on top of a younger bird beating its head with its beak. The <br clear="none">
immature bird was not moving or defending itself. I opened the back <br clear="none">
door about, 4 feet from the feeder, but the adult ignored me. The <br clear="none">
feeder is not in a position that I could reach, so I went and got a yard <br clear="none">
stick, and used that to gently lift up the tail of the adult, which <br clear="none">
startled it, and broke its grip on the smaller bird. But the smaller <br clear="none">
did not move. I did the same thing with the yardstick to it, and it <br clear="none">
finally took flight, with the adult in pursuit. Shortly, the adult <br clear="none">
returned. Hopefully the younger one found one of our other, less <br clear="none">
defended, feeders.<br clear="none">
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We've seen mating, it is noisy, but very brief, generally with the two <br clear="none">
birds spiraling toward the earth or into a bush.<br clear="none">
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It has been years since I thought about Ardrey's "amity-enmity <br clear="none">
complex". Where, at one point, he proposes that environmental hazards <br clear="none">
might promote cooperation (amity) among a given species, here it seems <br clear="none">
we may be seeing it doing just the opposite. Well, unlike penguins, <br clear="none">
hummingbirds live relatively short solitary lives, and they are fiercely <br clear="none">
territorial.<br clear="none">
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Chuck Reinsch<br clear="none">
Magnolia<br clear="none">
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