I don’t quite understand hummingbirds
I’d love to buy some new hummingbird feedersfor our yard to attract hummingbirds to our yard. I really love the ruby throated hummingbird – it is so beautiful and sparkly. It is dismaying, however, to observe how territorial and vicious they are towards each other! How anything can be so pretty and so mean at the same time is certainly a head-scratcher! I don’t understand the photographs that I see in catalogs where several hummers are feeding at the same time at a feeder – in my experience they chase each other away so that only one can feed at a time! I’ve had to space my feeders far apart so that more than one can feed – if they are close together there is a bully that “guards” them and keeps chasing away all the other hummers!