For me, this is wishful thinking.
However, for those of you (Tamara… you must be seeing my buddies by now) in the south, get your feeders out. These little buggers must be starved after their journey northward, particularly the hummers that cross the Gulf. They need food. With much of their habitat wiped out in last autumn’s hurricanes, this year please be particularly attentive to the early arrivals. If you want to report your first sightings of the Ruby Throats this year and have them included on the migration map, go here and include your information. I love watching the migration movement each year. My Mother just told me that she listened to a robin sing last evening and saw one get a worm while we spoke on the phone this morning. No such luck for me. I heard flying squirrels in my attic last night. hmmmm….. guess I’ll be out buying a Hav-a-hart trap this morning. They are little buggers and can eat their way through almost anything. I need to get them out, and soon.
Progress report on the Funnel Neck: Both sleeves are in. Side seams, tonight. This stretchy yarn better not let me down. The sweater and I do not look like much of a match.
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11 responses to “hummer migration”
That is so cool. The hummers are only about 400 miles south me. Yahoo!!!!!!! We only have the regular nasty grey squirrels. I imagine flying squirrels would be about as hard to remove as bats (which we have in abundance).
Is it sad that I thought this was going to be about hummers as in the SUV’s?
I saw red-winged blackbirds this week. Woot!
Is this not typical of us? Last night M and I discussed hummers and when they would be in the mtns – I told him in MO I expected the barn swallows the first week of April and the hummers 2 weeks later. I had several nesting around my porch. Here. No hummers…unless one passes thru on the way to the mtns. And that would be ??? I think in May.
Hummer season coming up! Can’t wait. Heard they are in the south along with Monarchs. The robins have been here in zone 6a for awhile–even in the snow. Unusual? Flying squirrels, hmmmm, they are little buggers. Love that hummer migration map! PS I can share my mice w/anyone interested.
Great map! Hummers don’t make it up my way until the end of April…but those flying squirrels, ARGH! BTW, I read they can share the same habitat cavity with a bat! (with the bat using the upper portion and the squirrel using the lower!)a little symbiosis going on there….
That is a great map! I saw my first robins on Saturday; 11 hopping around looking for worms in my lawn.
This was the first week of robins for me, a whole bunch of them outside my window at work!
You’re doing better on the seaming than I am.
I’m still waiting for hummingbirds here in WA. I call Wild Birds Unlimited (feed store) about every week. I think they must be sick of me asking “Seen any hummingbirds yet?”. The feeder is out in hopes of earlybirds (aha ha…), but no such luck yet.
I love the picture of the shadow vine lace in your last post.
We have a cabin near Yosmite and one year had the unexpected pleasure of feeding migrating hummmingbirds. First the males came, then a week later the females and almost-grown babies. When I took the feeder in for re-filling one afternoon, the tiny birds were so upset-lots of fluttering until I brought it back outside!! They were all so hungry that it didn’t bother them that I was watching up close, so I stayed up on the ladder for quite a while-only inches from them. I saw that even though they look so sweet, they do poke one another with those long beaks…and the pokees let out a quite a loud squeak!!
No hummers yet here (clearly), but I did see the first several robins on the lawn. Always a spirit lift around these northern parts.