Hummingbirds have arrived

beneteau

Got one male started on the feeder today.  They're early this year.

Ricci.Wright

Damn those tiny things are hard to hit the way they go darting around and I can eat like 100 in one setting.

BobJudy

Deep fried and the beak doubles as a toothpick. Bob

toad67

We haven't seen any new ones yet, at least as far as I can tell. We did have some winter here, and they all still look the same, and always change out the feeder water every couple of days. Hopefully some new ones will get here. Love to see them around. Sometimes, when I find that things are getting the best of me, I just sit back and watch the birds and realize that things are okay.

BikerBob

We’re still a couple weeks from flowers here. But I did see a pair of wood ducks working on a nest Saturday morning in a woods about 50 yards behind the house.

gruntled2

We have them year round but I just mentioned to my wife that the feeder hasn't gone down in the last few days. 

Rocky Raab

I always put my first feeder out on April 15, and the rest of them when I see the first bird, which is usually within a week. We get Black-chinned hummies here, with an occasional stray Rufous or Broadtail.

He Dog

They arrive here about a week earlier Rocky, also black-chinned.  Broadtails mostly stay closer to the mountains.  Rufous arrive late July to Sept on their way back south. 

Rocky Raab

I live on the slope of the mountains, several hundred feet above the valley floor. My Blackies are pretty aggressive, and even a larger Broadtail can't stand up to a determined attack at my feeders. I normally have three families of Blacks that use my feeders. A backyard pair, one in the front, and a third that ventures in from the south of me somewhere. The two closest males have perches where they assiduously watch my feeders, and when any other bird dares to flit in, the males will instantly bomb them. The backyard one has used the same twig on the apple tree for years now, so it's either the same bird, or he's taught his son where to perch to guard the grub! Amazing little critters, my hummies.