Wow! You may have to build a heated bird house for them.

They love you and don't want to leave you. That's my guess, and I'm sticking to it. LOL

This afternoon we are inundated with robins, cardinals, woodpeckers and blue jays. My guess is that large swaths of the atmosphere are affected by Harvey. It's too early here for migration, and we hardly had any cold or snow here last winter anyway. No snow at all from January on. I can't remember when that happened.

It is a known problem that some birds species are going to experience losses due to the changes, not just in reading when to migrate, but knowing when the all-important fueling spots along the way will have the boom of food necessary to give them sufficient fat stores to complete their trip.

Hummers still fighting with each other here, although not as many as a couple of weeks ago when there were dozens. Baltimore Oriels are drinking up the syrup, young as well a older ones.

Phyllis; I have hummingbirds everywhere! It's so nice to sit under the "feeder tree" and watch them. I keep one feeder in the next-door neighbor's yard, one in the across-the-street neighbor's yard, and right now I have two in my big tree and one on a shepard's hook near the sewing room window. I can see all the feeders from my shaded "perch."

I can sit out there and watch them drink, perch, preen, and flit from feeder to another, screeching bloody murder as they chase one another away.

They are such a hoot!

There are several hummers in my neighbor's Althea bush - such a pleasure to sit and watch them.