Hello, I saw your comment and even though it was six months ago, I’m hoping you will see this. It is nice that you take the time to give your birds fresh nectar every day. I understand your concerns about your neighbors not taking the time to change nectar and keep the feeder clean. I worry about that myself in my neighborhood. Sometimes people want to do what the neighbors are doing, but they don’t take the time to research it. One of my neighbors hung a feeder, but she uses pesticides on all her flowers on the balcony. I am concerned about birds being harmed by pesticides, but I don’t want my neighbor to think I’m being rude. I have been thinking of making her a homemade gift – a little booklet of pages I have printed about hummingbird care and care for different flowers. She asks me gardening questions frequently, so I thought I could include some pages about the gardening, and a few pages showing the dangers of pesticide use/not cleaning hummer feeders. Maybe could try something like this with your neighbor. One last thing, I hope you put your feeders back up. If you can, maybe hang a few more feeders and then they will all come to you. I have fuchsia’s hanging by my feeder and the birds feed off of them also. I highly recommend them. Good luck to you! :)

I see your post was a year ago, but wanted to say I had a hummingbird visitor that would fly in front of our sliding glass door screen and ‘talk’ to my cats and I. Sometimes he would hover so low to the ground, almost like he was taunting my cats. The cats didn’t know what to make of it. My one cat used to make noises back at the bird. I named him Jetson because he sounded like the flying cars in ‘The Jetsons’. :) I say hello to the hummers too when I’m outside, so my neighbors probably think I’m a bit crazy also. Haha. I really enjoy the hummer visits too and am hoping Jetson comes back this year. I really enjoyed your post, thanks for giving me a laugh!

My pleasure! :)

Yes, that could be the problem. It’s a normal behavior for all birds and animals to leave for safer sanctuary.

Thank you so much, Cathy! Will do!

They probably migrated to a warmer area. Just keep the feeder out anyway, but not so much sugar water until you see them come regularly. You could tie red ribbons, towels onto the balcony rails or put a flag out. They can spy the red from quite a distance when migrating and will snoop it out. I use 1/3 c. sugar-1 c. of water during cold weather so they don’t have to keep coming back as often, then go back to 1/4 c of sugar when it’s consistently warm.

Please continue feeding the hummers. They will continue to feed at yours over your neighbor. Maybe you can ask if you could change hers too. I don’t think it is necessary to change it 2x a day. I have read they can be changed every 3 days or so.