WOW, that's a lot of humming birds!
RAK
 

They must be tired as they are not dive bombing each other. Here, one bird will try to drive off any interlopers, and seem to spend more time [and energy] doing that than if they just slurped in peace...
tomw
 

It drives MoSup crazy that everyone seemingly draws multiple Hummers to their feeders. We NEVER get more than one at a time, despite have several regulars customers.
 

I don't know how much to believe but I've "read" that Humming birds metabolisms are so high that they require a high level of hormones to function. These tend to make them irritable. They are like little 'roid ragers or methheads. They'll go after other birds much large than themselves and they aren't all that nice to each other unless they are really tired. So what I've "read" says that if you want a number of humming birds you have to set up a bunch of individual humming bird feeders. So each bird can have it's own. The problem is figuring out how many feeders to you want to mess with and is there a way to plumb a lot of them far enough apart to avoid territorial sparring.
 

When I was a kid we had a trellis loaded with honeysuckle that attracted them.
 

that is pretty amazing. Saw similar numbers last summer in CO. There were so many of them their wings sounded like the wind as they darted back and forth, and they made little screechy noises.
Meanwhile folks were discussing how many pounds of sugar they went through for the season. wow!
 

I haven't seen one so far this year in Ok. City. It's been so bloody dry lots of stuff isn't flowering; I think they've detoured to avoid the drought-hit areas
 

Last summer when I went into Arkansas and had a massive amount of Hummingbirds around I was told that the Females will perch and the males will hover and fight each other off.

if you stay with the clear and don't put dye in then your deck or cars won't get stained red from the droppings.

thoR~
 

If you want to realize how old age and stuff has made you SLOW, just stand outside for a bit and the hummers will zoom by so fast you aren't even sure if it was a hummingbird or a LARGE insect.
They must think we are statues. When curious, they can come inspect you and begone before you have time to react.
Haven't used red #? in years. Not that I'm worried about the "danger", just don't need it. Maybe it was a communist plot to use red.... chuckle.
tomw
 

Looks like a normal summer day on my deck here in New Mexico. The only time they stop bickering with each other is when they are really, really, hungry and tired, and then they just eat. Neat little critters! I go through about 100 lbs. of government price-supported sugar every summer. And they never even say thank you!
 

The Arizona Sonora Desert Museum outside of Tucson has an aviary full of hummingbirds. I once had one hover about 6 inches from my nose for 30 seconds or so while he eyeballed me; it was pretty cool.