Hummingbirds 2024
 

Hello all. I put out my feeder on Sunday, April 28th. The feeder is next to my chair in the living room, and I hadn't seen neither hide nor hair of my hummingbirds. Until now....May 2nd.
First hummingbird of the year just made a fly-by at around 3:40pm and then stopped for a drink. It just made another swing by as I am typing this.

Welcome back.

Dave

I just came here to say the same thing! I put the feeder out a week ago but didn't see any hummingbirds until today. One male hummingbird arrived a little after noon; he must be heading north.

You can post your sitings here: https://hummingbirdcentral.com/hummi...g-2024-map.htm

The wave must be starting. My feeders have been up for 2 days. Just had my first visitor a few minutes ago.

Had our first today in Wolfeboro .

Feeders have been up for a week. I also had my first visitor yesterday. It's the first time ever that the first hummingbird of the year that I saw was a female.

Tracking on the web
 

I started tracking the migration a few days ago and the closest I had found to Alton was in Barnstead. It took a few days for them to get to my place, but it appears they are here.

I have seen one buzzing around my Azalea bush and am waiting for my Rhododendrons to open up.

Dave

We had our first, a male at our feeder yesterday, 5/02

Our first arrived April 30th (compared to May 8th last year). We now have seen two, competing for the feeder (although we have two, one in front and one in back) as usual.

They finally got to Welch, usually a week after UP's place. Some fighting going on.

Hmm…time to drag the feeders up from the basement!

The boys are back...
 

The boys are back. At least two at a time, and possibly a third, are buzzing around our feeder. For the first time, I have seen the flash of red on the throats.

Makes you wonder if they have ever hear "Can't we all just get along?". :laugh:

Dave

I put a feeder in the front and in the back to hopefully cut down on the squabbling. Unfortunately, once they get into "fight" mode, that's all they know. When they are calm, they use both feeders. But if they happen to both show up at the same feeder, "Game's on!". The arial dive bombing and the audible cry puts on quite a show. Both feeders are in front of windows so we have prime seats.

They also have their "watching perch" to keep an eye on the food source. In the front, it's the lilac bush. In the back, it's the clothes line. We have had 4 birds (sometimes even non hummingbirds) sitting on the clothes line and that's cool. Let one of them move to the feeder (unless it's the boss or a favored female) and they get shooed away. It's harder to see them in the lilac bush. The watcher is usually there but the wannabes are usually in nearby trees.

Amazes me every year how much energy they waste squabbling with each other. Plenty of feeders and ports but I watched 3 of them go at each other for more than 30 minutes.

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