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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: Howieh on May 03, 2018, 06:38:11 AM
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Will wonders never cease?? My first hummingbird sighting, a male, a week earlier than most past years! I'll watch for a while to see if he returns. Feeder has been up for about a week.
First known visit was just after 6:30AM, returned at 7:05AM, going back to bed! (me, that is), will refill feeder later this morning. :)
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http://www.therubythroat.com/migration--report-a-sighting.html
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Damn you !!
lol 8)
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I had my first hummer too yesterday morning at the feeder. I also had a Black-and-White Warbler, a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak and a couple of Brown Thrashers. Put out your halved oranges now for the Baltimore Orioles and Catbirds. Raisins and dried cranberries will also bring in the Catbirds (if they generally show up in your area).
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Damn you !!
lol 8)
Who, Me? He was here last evening, early this morning and he just showed up in the pouring rain so I guess he will be hanging around, for a while anyway. Pretty quiet otherwise, few sparrows making whoopee, Mr. Cardinal feeding his mate and the other usual suspects, but only one(?) squirrel, the crazy red one terrorizing everything else under the feeder. I also have a pair of cottontails who are much more discrete than the sparrows... :)
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Put up my feeders 3 days ago and got my first Hummingbird the following day and my first Oriole yesterday! Both birds have returned several times since arriving. Hurray, life is good!
Good birding,
Walter :)
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Damn you !!
lol 8)
Who, Me? He was here last evening, early this morning and he just showed up in the pouring rain so I guess he will be hanging around, for a while anyway. Pretty quiet otherwise, few sparrows making whoopee, Mr. Cardinal feeding his mate and the other usual suspects, but only one(?) squirrel, the crazy red one terrorizing everything else under the feeder. I also have a pair of cottontails who are much more discrete than the sparrows... :)
First male this morning at 8am.
just an fyi he told me he's been here over a week and I just haven't seen him so I guess I beat you after all :wink:
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you are all jerks. :)
feeder's out. don't expect anything for 2 weeks. but i did get a rose-breasted grosbeak yesterday, which is a first!
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Two weeks?? Are you kidding me? Better check your nectar Richard because I've had at least one male hanging around since May 3 and we're both waiting for the ladies to arrive. I thought today would be the day but I looked at last year's photos and my first female image was taken on May 15. Interesting mix now in the back yard - house sparrows, a pair of cardinals, a red breasted nuthatch, robins, chickadees, goldfinches, 1 red squirrel and 2 cottontail rabbits... :)
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First female this morning. Flew right in and buzzed the dog and went right to the feeder.
Jerks? You're just jealous
Clean and refill your feeder every few days and have patience. I think you have them around but you just don't see them. Be weird like me and Howie and sit watching the feeders instead of doing something more productive
lol
Meghan
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What, me weird? Two males fighting over the feeder just before dark but still no females.
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Had my first ever, in my back yard, this morning. I have had a feeder up in the past, without any luck. :D
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/829/27168751907_c2604b68b4_z.jpg)
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Good show! While my 2 males were chasing each other all over the yard my first female showed up! Let the fun begin! I'll try to get a courtship video later today!
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Two weeks?? Are you kidding me? Better check your nectar Richard because I've had at least one male hanging around since May 3 and we're both waiting for the ladies to arrive. I thought today would be the day but I looked at last year's photos and my first female image was taken on May 15. Interesting mix now in the back yard - house sparrows, a pair of cardinals, a red breasted nuthatch, robins, chickadees, goldfinches, 1 red squirrel and 2 cottontail rabbits... :)
maybe you're right. who knows.
had a baltimore oriole on the feeder today. that's a first.
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so maybe you guys were right.
i came home at 8 tonight. went to the backyard, put some water in the feeder's ant trap.
i just posted and thought "i should go outside and wash and refill the feeder. maybe these guys are right."
i take a look at the feeder and see this:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12Wi_l ... GA6j5lguLH (https://drive.google.com/open?id=12Wi_l44JIBmGxQQxmt8MuBGA6j5lguLH)
yep. a tiny strand of poop and it's perfectly aligned with one of the feeder's holes. 2 inches from the hole. so someone paid it a nighttime visit.
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well, yesterday was pretty swell. was preparing dinner and, at 6 pm, noticed a hummingbird at our feeder. it didn't stay long. we went outside to have dinner and were sitting 6 ft from the feeder and, at 7:30 pm, the hummingbird flew by, hovered over the cable line, then came and fed at the feeder for 30 seconds. it's a female, we think. she didn't care much that we were there. was pretty great.
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It looks like you've made a friend for life or at least for the summer, and if she is nesting nearby and things go well the fledglings should arrive by early July. Even without any flowers to keep them around I often have 3 or 4 fighting(?) over the feeder during July and August. Btw, I have a pair of Orioles visiting the humminbird feeder and, needless to say, the hummers, especially the male, are not amused! I love having the orioles around so I am going to rig a platform on top of the shepherds hook so I can put out some oranges.
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I stuck an orange slice above the regular feeder but the orioles completely ignored it and continued to visit the hummingbird feeder until mid June. I haven't seen them since but the hummer traffic has really picked up - this evening I had a male and at least three others chasing each other all over the yard (not sure if the fledglings have arrived yet?) - too dark for stills but I've shot lots of video, such as it is, with the SX50. The male is always the last to leave; he sits above the feeder until it's nearly pitch dark, has a final feed and disappears into the shrubbery or heads across the street into the Bestview Park woods.
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My wife spotted a female Ruby Throat Humming bird taking water from the tops of flowering
Hibiscus syriacus (Rose of Sharon's) at Front window this morning.
It hung around for a while, came to rest on a DATA cable running to neighbours house. It was too dark for photo's
This is good as we don't have a feeder out.
Feels strange not being at Tiny beaches :roll:
napper:)