> Lovely Ruby-throated hummingbird at our patio today checking out buddleia,
> salvia and the feeder.
>
> It’s been around every day for the last week and throughout summer we had
> at least two.
>
> Henrietta
> Lexington MA
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM Josh <opihi...> wrote:
>
>> I follow Linda Ferraresso’s example, I keep cleaning and refilling the
>> hummingbird feeder until it freezes solid. I haven’t gotten lucky up here
>> in MA yet, but I had a Rufous show up back in January 2001 when I still
>> lived in Durham, NC.
>>
>> My last yard hummer sighting dates here in Amherst, per eBird:
>> 9-21-2011
>> 9-13-2012
>> 9-20-2013
>> 9-15-2014
>> 9-6-2015
>> 9-22-2016
>> 9-8-2017
>> 9-13-2018
>> 9-16-2019
>> 9-18-2020
>> 9-18-2021
>> 9-9-2022
>> 9-23-2023
>> 9-11-2024
>>
>> One has been visiting the feeder today, so I’ve beaten last year’s latest
>> sighting by a few days, but have another full week before tying my latest
>> ever.
>>
>> Good birding,
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>>
>> Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D.
>> Amherst, MA
>> https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/opihiman >> https://www.facebook.com/opihi >>
>> Writer/compiler, Bird Observer
>> https://www.birdobserver.org/ >>
>> Columnist, “Earth Matters”
>> https://www.gazettenet.com/search?bodysearch=earth+matters >> https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/category/earth-matters/ >>
>> Vice-president, Hampshire Bird Club
>> https://hampshirebirdclub.org/ >>
>> Northeast Chapter head, Dragonfly Society of the Americas
>> https://www.dragonflysocietyamericas.org/northeastdsa >>
>>
>>
>>
