I just saw a hummingbird!

[kevyn]

I just now saw a hummingbird pass by, hovering briefly over the tops of the trees and bushes outside my porch!

It's the first one I've seen this year. I'm pretty sure it was a selasphorus rufus, which has one of the largest migrations of all the hummingbirds. They migrate from Guerrero, México to as far north as Southeast Alaska to breed and dine on wildflowers.

It looked kind of like this:

(Photo by Ryan Bushby, Source: Wikipedia)

Wow. I felt like I just had a visit from a fellow long-traveller!

I think I need to get a feeder.

Comments

get a feeder!

[kcfairy.livejournal.com]

This year I upgraded to a large glass feeder. Besides humming birds I had several Baltimore orioles. I had never seen one, just pictures. It is fun to watch the "hummers" as My dad called them. The are mean little bastards. I read that in Readers Digest. I saw one stand of against a yellow jacket. The jacket was feeding and the hummer came up. The jacket turned around and they faced off. The hummer made a move toward the jacket. The jacket leaned back. They stayed that way for a while. Finally the hummer moved to another hole. I read Hummer will attack big birds. Their beaks are like lances! I saw one drink then fly to a tree branch and clean his beak by wiping it on a branch.

Make your own food using 4 cups of water to one cup of sugar. Boil for one minute. Cool. Use. No color needed. Change every couple of days.

Re: get a feeder!

[kcfairy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have ruby throated hummers and some little green guys. I should look them up. I call them the "red nekkers" and the "green backers". I didn't know Kansas even had hummers until 3 years ago and my neighbor had a feeder. Of course I am almost in Missouri.

Re: get a feeder!

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the ruby throateds migrate right though Kansas twice a year. I remember seeing them from time to time in Manhattan.

Re: get a feeder!

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Check out http://whatbird.com they have a cool wizard for identifying birds.

Re: get a feeder!

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha your dad liked hummers

Re: get a feeder!

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Oh, and thanks for the recipe.

[bikerbearmark.livejournal.com]

Hummingbirds are cool, and I envy that you guys get to see Rufous hummers out there in the PNW. Here, the rubythroateds are still going gangbusters at our feeders.

[kcfairy.livejournal.com]

HI. I just read your profile. I too like hard core cyberpunk. Have you read Rickard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon series? I would call that new cyberpunk.
If so do you know of any other new books like that? BTW I am an old lesbian friend of Kevyns not just some weirdo trying to talk to you...well I am a little weird.

[bikerbearmark.livejournal.com]

Hey, KC! Morgan is great - one of my favorite current authors - so you got me spot on.

At the moment I'm reading Elizabeth Bear's Carnival, which is turning out to be even wilder and wackier than I thought possible. After hearing two strong reviewers rave independently over Bear's excursions into gender roles and a newly post-Singularity society, I couldn't resist, and it's been well worth it so far! I think you'll like it too.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

It's possible you could see one there in Nebraska. According to the Wikipedia article on Rufous, there is an increasing tendency of them for them to migrate East and winter in Florida.