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Black-chin male at like 3ft. Might’ve been the same male hung around here last year but if so he’ll be sorely disappointed, last months polar vortex wiped out all my flowering hummingbird shrubs. Whole place looks dead now.

I did put out the feeder.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll get my feeders ready. I planted a hummingbird/butterfly flower garden, but the plants are just coming up, so we shall see.

Nothing like that here yet. Was 6F just a couple of mornings ago. 1.5" snow this morning, all melted off now with rain, snow, and wind, not conducive to hummingbird approaches.

But, there was a spotted towhee in the yard today!

I saw a morning dove today.

First bugs on the windshield today.

Haven't seen any yet but feeders went up last weekend. Should be any day now.
Patrick

My wife put out three feeders a few days ago and we have four half sized youngsters hanging out. Little schitz.

Looks like I'll offer a toast to Mickey Colman tonight. Thanks Birdie, I needed another excuse.

It will be three weeks or so before my first black-chinned shows up. It just occurred to me that I have not noticed a junco in the past two or three days. They may have departed already. I love those little cuties almost as much as the hummies. The only birds at my feeders right now are house finches, black-capped chickadees, a downy woodpecker pair and possibly a hairy woodpecker (if it isn't a second downy female.)

Transition time, for sure.

First barn swallows this weekend tho they must have been around for a couple of weeks at least already.

Scissor tailed flycatchers are in, first chimney swift, a broad-winged hawk and a flight of long-billed curlews, spring is unfolding as it does.

got some small blackbirds here with red and yellow on their shoulders, don't remember redwing blackbirds having yellow, they like the feeder.

First mountain blue birds yesterday.

Doves the other day.

Tree sparrows about a week ago.

Euro sparrows today.

Nine nest boxes up.

I have one feeder up since Thursday. So far, not even a wasp.

Yes. RWBB

Red, with white rather than yellow, will be tri-colored BB.

Moments ago, had the first yellow goldfinch at my feeder. Summer shift is taking over, for sure. Saw what was likely the last male Junco yesterday.

Where do the Humming Birds winter?

Mexico or Central America

Mike, what do you recommend to fill the feeder with???

Or Oregon we keep 10 to twenty all winter and have migrations come through from late January on and might have 50-100 for 3 or four days and poof they’re gone. Then another migration shows up.

Haven’t seen any blue jays yet, no hummingbirds either.