Date: 09/07/2024

Number: 1

I have butterfly feeders with melons and overripe bananas. Today a hummingbird sat on one of these feeders and appeared to be picking off the fruit flies, then flying up to catch some that had taken flight, and returning to sit on the feeder or to hover next to the banana, picking off the fruitflies. I've seen brief visits of hummingbirds to butterfly feeders in the past, but never such prolonged feeding, even sitting to eat insects. This banana did have a lot of fruitflies.

Minneapolis, MN

Latitude: 44.9 Longitude: -93.3

Observed by: Mary
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