Enough To Go Around

Day 222: You would think they'd realize I'm not going to let them run dry, but as I am typing this, there are nine birds at eight feeder ports and it sounds like a beehive out there. I can hear the hum of their wings even through the closed window. We're running about 12:1 females to males in a population of approximately two dozen, and I suspect some of these may be newly hatched this year. Breeding season is late April to early May. It's the greatest population of Rufous Hummingbirds I've had here, and they are sucking down the nectar like they don't believe there's enough to go around.