Hummingbirds have arrived in western Upper Michigan

[Kaleva]

A few days ago my wife said several of her local Facebook friends have posted that the hummingbirds are back. So I got the hummingbird feeder from the basement, washed it out and made some hummingbird food. After it cooled in the fridge, I filled the feeder and hung it out on the arbor in the flower bed. A couple of days later early morning, I saw my first hummingbird at the feeder. There's two of them that make stops now. I saw one at the feeder a few minutes ago.

[calimary]

1. Yay!

I love hummingbirds. Magical little creatures!

[Goonch]

2. Hummingbird Migration Map

https://empressofdirt.net/hummingbird-migration-map/

[Walleye]

3. Mine showed up a couple of weeks ago here in Delaware.

Lots more activity from the male Ruby-Throat the past couple of days now that the temperature has gotten above 80. I have seen a female a few times.I put feeders out every year and I like to think that this one was one of the ones that hatched in the nest over my deck last summer.

[lark]

4. When my husband pulled up our red 4 O'clocks, the hummers & butterflies left.

I'm now looking for a couple of pots of these to plant in the fence line so we go back to feeding these beautiful & important critters. They might also help to control the neighbors weeds?

[Walleye]

5. The female has been buzzing around in the trees this morning.returned to her old nest from last year

She came to the feeder and came up and looked at me close to the glass about a foot or two from my face. She must be the same one from last year, she went right to her old nest. And the male has been around this morning too. It was such a treat last year to watch the nesting and fledging. Hummingbirds are my spirit animal I first experienced them when I was about five years old in the woods behind our house.Put your flowers out I have a hibiscus and a couple of other red flowers that they love. I think this is gonna be a good hummingbird year

[lark]

6. I have never seen a hummingbird nest that I know of.

I did find an old nest in the middle of the azaleas when I was cleaning out the HellVines last week but I don't know what type of bird. The nest was pretty big so I'm guessing it was from a cardinal?

Speaking of nests there's usually a robin that makes a nest and lays eggs in our mailbox but most of the time that doesn't work because some mail guy replacement doesn't put the mail in the attached open cardboard box clearly marked MAIL in large letters on all sides. This year a different type of bird, larger and has yellow breast and the eggs aren't blue. I only saw her in the nest once. We're having the roof cleaned today and hope the noise doesn't make her leave the nest permanently.

I'm going to Loews today to look for red 4 o'clocks or red Impatiens if they don't have any of the preferred flowering plants.

Hold on hummers, the flowers are returning!

[Walleye]

7. I saw the female returning to the same spot in the tree last year building her nest that's how

I spotted it. It happened to be about 30 feet above my deck where I can sit and look at it out my window I considered it to be a once in a lifetime thing. But maybe I’ve got a return visitor here that would be so cool.The nest is about an inch maybe inch and a half in diameter, stuck to a small branch and camouflage a little bit of leaves to look like lichen It’s an amazing piece of work

[lark]

8. So cool!

Lucky you, but your care of them probably helped the luck along, don't you think?

[Walleye]

9. Well, it is lucky but I have been putting feeders out for at least 10 years in the same place

Four years ago a little Vagabond Rüfüs showed up in December and stayed for a couple of weeks. Just because I had been too lazy to take down one of my feeders. Now I leave them up all year. Good luck with yours and the rest of your birds.

[lark]

10. Patience and good actions rewarded - I love it!