It’s been a great hummingbird migration season. The resident & nesting Black-chinneds arrived in April. Had successful nesting season. Then, in early July started getting Rufous migrants, with good #’s of adult males & females. Those were followed by numerous juvenile Rufous, jealousy guarding the feeders up until a week ago. This past week has seen the arrival of more Calliopes than have ever visited our feeders in past 30 yrs. This past wk, juv Calliopes have been the owners of the feeders, up to 4 at a time, even chasing off the larger Broad-taileds, which arrived yesterday. 

The Broad-taileds have always arrived like clockwork, the last WK of Aug. Rufous & Black-chinned have been gone a week now. Greatly reduced hummer numbers today. Down to just keeping 1 feeder full & dropped only 2 oz today. Should get stragglers into Sept.

Others migrating thru: Olive-sided Flycatcher, Cooper’s Hawk, W Wood-Pewee, BH Grosbeak, Gray Catbird, Yellow Warbler (mainly juvenile), Red-naped Sapsucker, Pine Siskin, Turkey Vulture & Common Nighthawk. Along the river: group of 10 BN Stilts. Next couple of weeks should see more & more fall migrants. 

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot