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Have a PhD and thirty five years as a professional ornithologist - research, teaching, author, speaker, webmaster of Ornithology.com . Have written thirty scientific papers, two bird field guides, a textbook in ecology and two recent books entitled "Amazing Birds" and "Birds of New England". Have traveled to over 80 countries watching birds.
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You are here: Experts > Recreation/Outdoors > Birding/Wild Birds > Birding > hummingbirds
Expert: Roger Lederer
Date: 9/2/2008
Subject: hummingbirds
Question
Hi....I have read articles on hummingbirds but never seem to find anything about the question I have for you. First of all for location purposes, I live in northern ohio along lake erie. I have two questions. Firstly, how long do they 'hang around' in my area? And since I dont have much visitation to my feeder, I wonder if it's because I have it close to my seed feeders for the other birds. Are hummingbirds afraid to come to their feeders if its close to the other ones? I appreciate your anticipated reply. Thank you
Answer
Hummingbirds will be in your area, migrating through until about mid-September.
Having seed feeders near hummingbird feeders should be no problem. I don't know how many hummers you have visiting or what the area around the feeder looks like or any other factors, so I can't tell you if things are normal or not. Could be that you don't have a problem at all - some years hummingdird populations are lower than others.
Best thing to do is collect data from year to year on a daily basis and see how many birds show up. After a few years you might be able to detect a pattern.
But, move the hummingbird feeder just in case and see if you get more visitors.
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