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WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Saw my first one today! I need to get the feeders up. Anyone else seen hummers yet?
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Heron
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: powell,Ohio
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None here yet! I meant to get my feeders up last weekend but never got to it.
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1st Place Winner DIY Catchall Contest
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Kissimmee Florida
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Mine show up in April like clock work.
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1st Place Winner DIY Catchall Contest
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Kissimmee Florida
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here are some from a recent trip.
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#5 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Stunning photos Viceroy! I never knew there were so many different kinds of hummingbirds. The second one with the tuft is so cool looking! You must have had an exciting trip.
I did get a feeder up yesterday for the one lone male that's checking out the digs. Luckily I had just bought some columbine and he visited them still in pots on the deck. I've been wanting to plant some red buckeye just for them, I'll have to put it on my wish list. |
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1st Place Winner DIY Catchall Contest
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Kissimmee Florida
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That is an Antillean crested humming bird, in Dominica. It was great.
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Viceroy!!! Awesome photos. I've never seen a hummer like that before anywhere in the US. Way cool photo by the way..... it almost looks "cooked" but I know it's not since I've gotten some photos accidently that look like that over the years. We won't get hummers showing up around us for at least another month or so.... maybe a little longer since it's been an unseasonably cool spring so I envy you.
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Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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I saw my first female ruby throated hummer today, at red salvia. The saying is that they arrive when the red buckeye blooms, so they should have been here for about a week now.
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Lungwort
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Alexandria, VA
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I'm still waiting to see any here in Northern Virginia. They usually show up around the third week of April in my experience.
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#10 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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I guess they were a little thrown off by the cold fronts the US has experienced lately which make them a bit late in returning this year.
We now have a second male show up which makes for some pugilistic behavior at the feeder. The Carolina jessamine has gone by but the columbine is still blooming. Early phlox is also blooming. I always mean to put up another feeder to stop the fighting, and I have in the past, but now I'm down to one feeder until I get another one. No females yet. |
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