Chart of hummingbird arrival in your area.

[Billrog]

Our feeder is like a busy airport this evening with 3 dif. kinds as far as I can make out with a rufus the last to show up some yrs. he's the first.

 

[Hill Farmer]

Saw our first one Sunday in NE AR. Guess he'd been around for a couple weeks.

 

[Billrog]

First baby I've seen at the feeder he was having trouble sitting on the perch.

 

[dave1949]

Haven't seen any hummers yet.

Saw swallows, tree swallows I think, for the first time today. The two of them were getting frisky up on the phone wire. Usually have a few around in spring/early summer. They like to skim the pond and feed over the open grassy area around the house.

 

[grnspot110]

Saw a couple about two weeks ago & one a couple days ago. They should be here in full force as the Columbine is in full bloom! (The pink blooms) Columbine normally brings them in force around here, but not this year!

 

[oosik]

Eastern WA state - near Spokane. Saw the first one yesterday and just set the feeder out this afternoon. The cliff swallows returned over a month ago - they almost beat the flying bugs.

 

[Redneck in training]

We have our feeder out for some time but no hummers so far. We used to have full house (12 units) of purple martins but this year only three pairs returned. Barn swallows showed up about ten days ago. Saw first gold finch today.

 

[buickanddeere]

May 10th here

 

[square1]

5/10 in the middle of your right palm

 

[sixdogs]

Haven't seen any hummers yet.

Saw swallows, tree swallows I think, for the first time today. The two of them were getting frisky up on the phone wire. Usually have a few around in spring/early summer. They like to skim the pond and feed over the open grassy area around the house.

Interesting thing about tree swallows, and probably all swallows is that they eat an enormous amount of insects. When we lived in the buggy area north of Bangor, I put up around 35 houses for them and it seriously reduced our bug population. Being outside in the Spring or near dusk in the summer was much more pleasant.

We mounted the houses on an 8 ft piece of galvanized pipe with a screw-on adaptor on the end that we could screw into the bottom of the box. I think the same birds return every year. I would just unscrew the house/base from the pole and brought the houses in the barn for the winter. Poles stayed in the ground.