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Originally Posted by Merrymeeting
Am I correct in assuming that hummingbirds return to the same place each year?
Like RG, we had birds feeding no more than 10 minutes after I put the feeder up on Saturday. I can't imagine new ones would find it that quickly and assume it has to be ones that remember from last year?
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I am convinced the little hummers do, indeed, remember where their food supply has been located in previous years. Whenever they return here in the spring before we have put our feeders out, we see them hovering around the places where the feeders go. We usually put out three feeders and they seem to remember where each feeder was the previous year. As you experienced, as soon as we hang the feeders back up the little hummers appear almost immediately.