After a slow start, hummer pressure is rising, quite a few on feeder, three usual species but fewer calliope. Lazuli showed up and I thought I saw a black headed grosbeak. We never got any Evenings this year. Swallows and house finch working satellite dish mast.
Bill Moore
Hoot Owl
Inkom
Gives new meaning to term “bird-brained”, lol! I have to wonder how many of the Spring arrivals: warblers, BH Grosbeaks, etc…have been to the yard & feeder in previous years. And, if this adult male Black-chinned was one of the adults from last year or a juvenile, hatched here, now returning? Fascinating, no matter which.
Brian Carrigan
That’s fascinating. I never thought about it but it makes sense since they obviously remember feeders from previous years. Cool creatures.
Cliff
Put out nectar feeder a week ago. Refreshed & refilled sev times since. Moved to a diff’t spot in yard, to keep wasps away from deck, this yr. And, a Black-chinned male just flew by with gorget catching the sun (first of yr), looking at exact spot where feeder was last year (have read hummingbirds can remember exact location of individual flowering plants, yr to yr). Then, it found the feeder farther out in yard.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
What about lines or spots on the breast I ask myself?!
This bird looks like it has both.
I can’t bring the pic back up. I’m in an odd place.
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