Both sexes are aggressive. It's pretty interesting, but if their squabbles become tiresome, you can put up more feeders, located on opposite sides of the house, or even farther apart if you've got room.
-Geo On May 13, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Anne Clark <anneb.cl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hile School Rd, just out of Basin: > > THree ruby throated hummingbirds are at war over the feeder starting > yesterday, when a male showed up. Two female-plumaged birds had been > "sharing' for a day, even been drinking at the same time. The male is not > welcome and one or both females have displaced him and driven him away > numerous times. > > They are wasting a lot of the sugar water energy buzzing around the tree like > a hive of large angry bees. > > I hadn't known that female hummingbirds might be dominant over males, or at > least hungry enough to win fights. > > Anne > > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
