Looks like my Hummingbirds have vamoosed.

Another wild flower around me blooming right now and great for hummingbirds is wild impatients. They have the impatient type throated orange flowers but get about 3-4 ft tall.
 
Hummingbirds have been gone for about a week now. I am in Southern NH at around 43°N Lat.. Been having 80 degree F afternoons in mid September!

Oddly about ten or so paper wasps are making a large nest in our front porch door eave - seems late in the season with nights down to high 40's (F) near dawn. I read now with brood #2 nest some queen breeding is happening prior to winter. Interesting to watch. They have been non aggressive so far and I have no plans to destroy them. Live and let live.
 
ARCOgraphite said:
Hummingbirds have been gone for about a week now. I am in Southern NH at around 43°N Lat.. Been having 80 degree F afternoons in mid September!

Oddly about ten or so paper wasps are making a large nest in our front porch door eave - seems late in the season with nights down to high 40's (F) near dawn. I read now with brood #2 nest some queen breeding is happening prior to winter. Interesting to watch. They have been non aggressive so far and I have no plans to destroy them. Live and let live.
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I have lots of the little green buzzers - they love my firecracker 🌱 …
 
ARCOgraphite said:
Hummingbirds have been gone for about a week now. I am in Southern NH at around 43°N Lat.. Been having 80 degree F afternoons in mid September!

Oddly about ten or so paper wasps are making a large nest in our front porch door eave - seems late in the season with nights down to high 40's (F) near dawn. I read now with brood #2 nest some queen breeding is happening prior to winter. Interesting to watch. They have been non aggressive so far and I have no plans to destroy them. Live and let live.
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Could be the warm weather is fooling the queen into producing eggs. Keep in mind the wasps are fat and happy as long as the grubs produce their sugary secretions that the workers happily eat. As soon as the temp drops, the queen will stop laying, the number of grubs will be lower and and the workers will look for other food and get aggressive. ;)

The Wasp Whisperer
 
From using ten lbs of sugar most of the summer up to two weeks ago for four feeders to now two. The few birds we get there all travelers. Missouri Ozarks 35 miles from Arkansas.
 
Missouri River Flyway will be busy. Mississippi Flyway should be picking up soon.

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Ours are all but gone now. One or two stragglers enjoying the peace of otherwise unused feeders. I look for them to be completely gone within a couple of days.
 
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