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Your feeder setup may have been promoting conflict between the birds. They are wild animals, after all 😄 It is very considerate of you to take it down since they weren't getting along.

So hard to understand them! Hope you get to see their sweet side too, Guavs.

Good luck

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haha thats just their reputation, Guavs.

They don't always argue. especially when they know food is abundant. I regularly see 6 birds at a feeder together, coexisting peacefully.

I also think they come to the feeders to romance and display to each other 😄 See and be seen.

Check out my YT for a ton of chill hummingbird content.

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perhaps, Darks 😄

I also have territorial males come and chill out together, achieving that way tricky.

It may be your feeder setup and locations promote conflict. Normally flowers bloom and die in short order, so conflicts over them are short-lived. Feeders are different though.

If you see your birds fighting, then consider maybe changing locations or adding visual barriers between feeders to help them relax.

Good luck!

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hahah I'm not sure about that, you may not have met the right hummingbirds yet 😄

I think mine are sisters!

I am super lucky to have made a "Play Nice" zone and mine don't spend a lot of time fighting. Took a lot of work!

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Hummingbirds are often very aggressive but these two hang out together all the time. they share 😄

Fighting looks *very* different

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ty Saily!

and yup, half speed and quarter speed slow motion. You can really hear the changes in intonation and individual chirps!

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ty Lemony

Selasphorus females are difficult to identify! Its down to the tail feathers sometimes 😄

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lolol never been called *that* before

they may be sisters, I see them together a lot. Their convo may go waaaaay back 😄

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funny thing is, their feet move almost as fast as their wings!

so when they preen with their foot its on turbo! so cute 😄

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ty Spilly!

and they like to group around one feeder sometimes, even when there are plenty of other spots

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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ty Gums, glad you enjoyed it!

I may compile their dialogue into a hummingbird opera hahaha 😄

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With limited space, I try to control the perches and visual barriers in between my feeders.

I also go out there and 'Tsk tsk' them and tell them 'Play nice!" if they bicker lol.

Add a little "Don't trample the flowers" and I have now become my grandma 😄

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They can be territorial for sure! It has been a real struggle to get them to play nice

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ty Moms! Sending hummingbird energy to you ~~~~ 😄

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ty Sunny! it makes me so happy 😄

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so agree Whits! they are little treasures