According to our Haikubox, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird has been around for weeks, feeders up. I figured it was finding food at the Virginia Bluebells, Red Buckeyes and Coral Trumpet Honeysuckle and I’d missed it. This morning on my early walk around the perimeter of the yard, I approached our front arbor where I finally saw one sipping from Coral Trumpet Honeysuckle. As my Dan said, “It’s getting real food!”
We’ve had many migrants here. This is the fourth consecutive morning that I’ve wakened to a lovely Wood Thrush singing. White-eyed and Blue-headed Vireos, and warblers, Yellow-rumped, Tennessee, Northern Parula, Nashville, Orange-crowned, and Northern Waterthrush have been at the bubbler. Summer Tanager and Indigo Bunting have stopped in, too. Still have at least one female Purple Finch visiting the feeders after a high count of six. Nesting Eastern Bluebirds and Eastern Phoebes are feeding chicks. What a lovely, busy time!!
