Mystery of the empty hummingbird feeder - any ideas?

Happy summer everybody :-)
On several occasions the Hummingbird/Oriole feeder in my yard has been quite full when I last see it in the evening but has been completely emptied by very early morning. No sign of any spilled on the ground.
Any ideas who might be enjoying night time sips? Bats??

Bats is what I was thinking. :-)

ohhh, I would love to get a picture of that!
Are you having a wonderful birthday??

Yes Thank You! Nice and relaxing and I just bought a Lobelia for the Hummingbirds. :-)

Sorry, don't mean to sound ignorant Pelletory, but...what's a Lobelia?

Your area bats...in mine raccoons! lol

That would be cool to get a pic!

I have watched the squirrels tip my feeders to get to the HB food. Dang old "tree rats"!!!

I didn't know Bats liked sugar water!

Only nectar drinking bats ..not all bats do.

not Tequila drinking bats?

If you don't mind me answering for Pelletory...this is lobelia
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/379/

and annual lobelia too:

aaaaahhhhh...Mrs. Ed! maybe with a twist of lime....

LOL Mrs Ed!

Yes my Lobelia (or Cardinal Flower) is the perennial red one.

I have a problem with the squirrels depleting my sugar water. They love it! I had to get some squirrel baffles for the posts I put the feeders on.

I used to have that too Warne, now I hang them from long chains and the squirrels don't seem to bother them.

I also have some ground level bird baths out that the squirrels use.

I did a little test last night by moving the feeder out to a much thinner branch, one that just supported the weight of the feeder. It was still full this morning so I'm thinking it was more likely a squirrel than a bat.

rats. I was looking forward to some bat pictures. Where ARE my bats, by the way. Haven't seen any yet. I sure did have the lightning bugs last night though!

LIGHTNING BUGS.....I am soooo green with envy!!!! Can't remember the last time I saw them. :-(((

Yes Ginger_H, just why don't we have lightening bugs in Fl? I just returned from a trip to N. Al. and they were out in force up there and so were the Cicadas, is that how they are spelled???? ..I live in P'Cola and I have never see a lightening bug here or heard the cadadids. Does anyone know the answer to this ? :-((((

We've been in Fountain since July 1996. I've seen lightning bugs MAYBE twice here. We do have cicadas. I've got some cool pics of a couple right after they "came out of their shells". They had attached to the screen of our porch so I had a great view. Was before I had the digital (I think)...will see can I find them to scan and post.

Well crud....I forget how to post/copy/paste whatever a link. Anyway I looked at the old threads I started and BINGO...found I had already posted a picture.
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April18,2002
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Hopefully you can find it, Floridares. :-)))