2017 Hummingbird Migration Map

[sixdogs]

Here' the map for when hummingbirds how up in your area. The map populates as new sightings are reported.

Seems I heard that the same hummingbirds return to the same areas each year. We will have our feeders up before they arrive.


Spring 2017 Migration of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds

 

[oosik]

I would guess since the western USA has fallen off the edge of the world - we won't be seeing any for quite a while. But when they are here - its like a band of gangsters.

 

[DaveNJ]

Thanks for the map. Hard to believe they're due here next week-- there's still snow on the ground here and there.

 

[sixdogs]

Thanks for the map. Hard to believe they're due here next week-- there's still snow on the ground here and there.

Things change fast. Last year we were debating when to put up the feeders when we saw one in the yard. This year we'll get them out before they arrive.

 

[wngsprd]

I would guess since the western USA has fallen off the edge of the world - we won't be seeing any for quite a while. But when they are here - its like a band of gangsters.

Yeah, I heard about that earthquake. What a shame. Seriously, do you have ruby-throateds? I was in western WA 2 years ago and saw lots of rufous hummingbirds...beautiful.

 

[oosik]

I think I read where they have the ruby-throated on the west side. I looked up "Humming birds of Washington" a bit ago and, of course, none of them look exactly like what I remember seeing last year. I know I get two kinds here - I think the Roufous & Calliope.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

When they get here, one hovers in front of our picture window, looking in at us... That's when the feeder goes out...

SR

 

[oosik]

Sawyer Rob - that's exactly how they let me know, also. Its all a big panic in front of the kitchen window. You would think that a wildfire was heading this way and they were trying to let me know.

 

[sixdogs]

We put those stick-on feeders on the windows and, as long as you don't move when they feed, they will be back again and again. It's really pretty neat.

We also put some cardinal vine climbing flowers on some cattle fence panels and the hummingbirds go wild for the flowers.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Why is Ohio the only northern state to get humming birds?

There not think here but in the summer if you put the feeders out you will see 2 or 3 different birds per day

 

[sixdogs]

Why is Ohio the only northern state to get humming birds?

There not think here but in the summer if you put the feeders out you will see 2 or 3 different birds per day

It's not. Here's the map for last year and they go way the heck up into northern Maine and what looks like New Brunswick on one hand and north of Calgary on the other. Here's 2016 from the bottom of the page.

2016 Hummingbird Migration Maps

You can search way the heck back in years.

 

[teejk]

Sawyer Rob - that's exactly how they let me know, also. Its all a big panic in front of the kitchen window. You would think that a wildfire was heading this way and they were trying to let me know.

They send "scouts" I think. Same as our robins and bluebirds.

 

[CalG]

They send "scouts" I think. Same as our robins and bluebirds.

scouts that never report back because they froze?

I quit setting HB feeders. They fight over it and make a ruckus in the air. All that darting about. They seem to do well enough in the flower beds.

 

[sixdogs]

scouts that never report back because they froze?

I quit setting HB feeders. They fight over it and make a ruckus in the air. All that darting about. They seem to do well enough in the flower beds.

Wife puts feeders in different parts of the yard and no fighting. We stuck a few on the windows, too and that helps. We only got a few for the first year and now we have lots of them. It's pretty neat.

 

[Brimfield]

It's not. Here's the map for last year and they go way the heck up into northern Maine and what looks like New Brunswick on one hand and north of Calgary on the other. Here's 2016 from the bottom of the page.

2016 Hummingbird Migration Maps

You can search way the heck back in years.

Thanks for the map.This sounds about right for the NE. I am amazed that they remember our house. They come back to where a feeder was last year and shame me into feeding them. Nothing yet but it's cold and snowing today

 

[sixdogs]

Thanks for the map.This sounds about right for the NE. I am amazed that they remember our house. They come back to where a feeder was last year and shame me into feeding them. Nothing yet but it's cold and snowing today

The first couple years we just had stragglers and scouts. After we put up 120 feet of Cardinal flower vines on fencing, along with the feeders, they really started on coming around. Now, it's a summer event with them showing up early and staying late. They have come to depend on us and wife likes having them.

 

[Brimfield]

The first couple years we just had stragglers and scouts. After we put up 120 feet of Cardinal flower vines on fencing, along with the feeders, they really started on coming around. Now, it's a summer event with them showing up early and staying late. They have come to depend on us and wife likes having them.

My wife loves them as well. we look forward to them. Still can't get over that they have the deck door memorized.

 

[Xfaxman]

Ruby-throated and their shadows.

From 2004, where we used to live.

 

[oosik]

The wife planted some kind of climbing flower at the base of my ham radio tower. It climbed about twelve feet up the tower and had medium blue flowers. The hummers really liked it - but they still fight over each bloom. Seems like each year I get more that come to the feeder. Last year I used 20# of sugar making syrup for them.

 

[teejk]

If you want to see one up close leave your garage door open. They LOVE red (like the color of your garage door opener emergency release or one of those empty folger's coffee containers). Better yet go out with a cap with anything red on it (safety glasses advised).