They’re here! We have so many of them now. Rufous hummingbirds are very aggressive, chasing each other and every other kind away from the feeders and even out of the yard. I put up five feeders. With the crowds we get, some of them are empty by the end of the day.
Season of the Rufous
Shot through dirty window with Pentax K-x on auto w/ 55-300 telephoto lens, tweaked like crazy (chrome , Camera RAW filters)
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Wow! Where are they arriving from?
Oh geez. You’re going to make me look it up, aren’t you. 🙂 We have four different kinds here: black-chinned, broadtailed, rufous, and the tiny Costa’s hummingbird. The latter is rare, but every now and then I see one. They all come and go in waves from their respective breeding and wintering habitats, and I couldn’t begin to tell you even which direction they’re heading! Isn’t that terrible? But the rufouses always show up about this time.
Anna hummers exhibit the same aggressive behavior. I once read somewhere (National Geographic?) that if hummers were the size of blackbirds, it wouldn’t be safe for humans to walk in their habitat 🙂
No kidding. They zoom by so close outside, I’ve felt a tiny bit of wind.
see that you heavily edited last post and removed my comment. Wow.
Just a temporary fill-in. The post had to go away for a while. It’s back now.
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