I could be wrong on this, but in general I don’t think hummingbirds spend lots of time in the Villages area. They definitely stop by the area during migration. In the winter hummingbirds commonly go further south, often to South America and the Caribbean and during the winter they go further north. We have migratory humming birds at our home in the Berkshires from early May through mid September. Our first little friends showed up last week, but are now wishing they waited a little longer because it has been unseasonably cold. We were very worried about them last Friday night when it got to the low 20’s with strong winds and snow flurries, but they made it through it. I think all the sugar water my wife puts out for them helped give them the energy to hunker down and make it through the cold stretch.
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