Date: 9/23/25 7:53 am From: DAVID KOCH <0000012d74227426-dmarc-request...> Subject: Hummingbirds and other migrants, Koch property, Northampton County
As is normal for this time in September, ruby-throated hummingbirds continue to move into and out of the yard, visiting both flowers and feeders. They're all either young of either sex or females, although if you don't know what to look for it's difficult sexing them. A lot of the ones I'm seeing are young males with marks on their throats. This will continue to sometime in early October,,usually around the 10th or so. And as also is the norm, adult males have been gone since the first week of September. They instinctively migrate early to get the best wintering territories, just like they do when they come north in the spring before the females. Also, with them gone it leaves food and habitat for the juveniles and females as they migrate. In addition tpo expected common species recentlu seen here include: kestrels and sharpies, bald eagles, a few broadwings, a pileated woodpecker, several northern flickers, three phoebes, an eastern wood-pewee, red-eyed and Philadelphia vireos, tree swallows, blue/gray gnatcatcher, bluebirds, Swainson's thrush, mockingbird, brown thrasher, parula, Connecticut, yellow, Tennessee,,prairie, and mourning warblers, scarlet tanagers, Lincolns' and swamp sparrows, cedar waxwings, and rose-breasted grosbeaks.
Arlene Koch Easton, PA Northampton County <davilene...>
