Very interesting story. It goes to show that each bird has an individual personality, some more agressive than others.
Here's one of mine that has been around, but gets chased off too.
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? which end's up busy beaver?

oh my gosh! what a beautiful photograph, I have never seen anything like it.It does not even look real. It looks like a piece of really expensive jewelry. It has taken my breath away.

thanks for the chuckle. so is yours a male or female , it seems at my feeders now the males are more dominating and stubborn. last evening a male was feeding and a female came in trying to run him off but he just ignored her . she was practically sitting on his back, he still wouldnt move , he finally had enough of her and run her off. its just instinctive for hummers to act this way , although yours does seem more aggressive than some

I have one who stands guard on top of the shepherd's hook the feeder hangs on. There's a male and a juvenile she chases off from her perch. I've also seen her perch on a nearby plum tree and willow. She's also buzzed me when I go to change the nectar so now I take it at night :)

Jackie

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So is she still around? The pic reminds me of the old dracula movies where he lifts his arms in the cape. I still have several hummers which are particularly active in the evening. I have this one male who likes to sit on the yard light which one feeder is hanging and will not let any other hummer come near the feeder or even any nearby plant. They have to go to the window feeders. He is the only one who does this.

We used to have hummingbird battles constantly, most of which ended in one being chased off, but occasionally an uneasy truce would develop where two birds would actually share the same feeder (though not without screeching and craning their necks, each irritatedly watching the other steal THEIR nectar). But we now have a hummer who is the uncontested king, and no other will even try to cross swords with him. There are no battles anymore: All he has to do is start flying in their direction and they take off like a shot. We put up a second feeder on another side of the house to give the others a better chance, but he just changed his roost to a tree farther out so that he could watch both feeders from one spot and now he gets them both.

A funny thing happened a couple of weeks ago, though. My DH and I were standing on the back deck just feet from one of the feeders (with The King screeching at us from a distance the whole time) when a new hummer flew up and landed on the feeder between us. If he would've sat still for it, I could've reached out and touched him. He knew we were there, but his only response to us was to crane his neck at us after every sip to ensure that we weren't making any funny moves. The hilarious part was that The King was absolutely beside himself that this strange hummer was feeding from HIS stash, but he was too afraid of us to approach and chase the stranger off. My DH and I held absolutely still to encourage the stranger to feed as long as he liked -- after all, that was the only shot at it he was ever going to get. We figured his courage in the face of us humans deserved to be rewarded.

Eventually, The King's pride overcame his fear and he flew right between my DH and I to run the intruder off, but the stranger had a nice long drink in the interim.