i have an unedited unrated hum report for our yard in August 2020 might be dangerous to share on this forum, so much hummingbird cussing, haha, but what the hay ?
Hummingbird summary August 2020
big difference this year was the sheer no. of hum plants we have in our back yard, incl many salvia sp, stache, zauschneria, penstemon, fireweed lining the east and south fence lines (Merry’s and Kevin’s lines)
neighbor Ray must still be doing his bee hives, as they were swarming at times, constantly at our water feature and at humfeeders
BUT
it looked, sounded, felt like our “hum population” was in crescendo most of the month of August ?
our latest RUHU Fall first Observed Date (FOD) since moving here 8 yrs ago, was 07 August, same for CA, just in our small back yard, so we can’t extrapolate from this to anything, eh?
but, here ya go, our last observed adult male BC was 24 August per Missy’s notes, and she took daily notes
SW consumption rate / conversion to no. of hums / maybe ok for steady-state breeding populations, but we can not imagine this useful during migration when there is so much turnover ?
RU display dives were humorous for the 1st time here (in 8 yrs?) reminded me of ALHU dives I saw and heard at the UCSB / CA Arboretum in 1999 (my west coast hummer trip)
As of today (9/13) I still have at least one hummer…I’m guessing it’s either a juvenile or female Black-chinned. I live south of Ammon, just east of Idaho Falls.
Sunday before Labor Day I still had three hummingbirds hitting my two feeders. One was a Calliope, not sure about the other two. Monday I saw two of them chasing each other in the morning, but when the big storm blew in in the early afternoon they were gone. I figured that was the last of them, but Wednesday morning I saw a solitary bird guarding one of the feeders. I was around all day, but didn’t see him again, and now he’s gone too. I never get many, but the big push for me seems to be a bit later than I read from Brian Carrigan and others. Funny, because I’m north of Idaho Falls, about two miles south of Ucon.
This looks like a Pectoral Sandpiper to me. Note the lack of
contrast between cap and supercilium, lack of white eye ring,
fat/chunky body, long pale based bill, and heavily streaked center
of breast.
Cliff
On 9/11/20 4:22 PM, Jason Talbot via
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