On Sat, 15 May 2021 09:23:27 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 5/15/2021 8:12 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
>> On Friday, May 14, 2021 at 1:41:31 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> I saw my first hummingbird of the season yesterday. It was a really nice
>>> day and I got a lot of work down. I had been out to a local flower stand
>>> to get some more annuals. Luckily, I had not lost any of the flowers
>>> planted last week, despite four nights in a row of frost warnings.
>>> Between buying and planting flowers and tearing out an ugly old Rose of
>>> Sharon I spend about 5 hours gardening. I sat down for a coffee and
>>> heard the hum of the bird. It lingered almost long enough for me to get
>>> a picture.
>>
>> We saw several, as the the remember the good hummingbird feeders. And they showed up early last year too!
>>
>> Sure sign of Global Warming!
>>
>> John Kuthe
>>
>Bullshit. Hummingbirds show up when they show up. I saw my first one
>this year on March 31st which is about normal for this region. A few
>years ago one hummingbird stayed for the winter; I think she was too old
>to migrate so I kept the feeder up and freshly filled for her. She was
>still around even when the temperatures dropped close to freezing in
>January and February (32F).
>
>Jill

Hummers can arrive here at the beginning of May, that's when I'm sure
to put out their feeders, I spotted them three days ago. They'll soon
be building nests in a tall Norway spruce just outside my office
window where they were born, right now it's 72.1ºF... the same tree
where I hang my weather station sender.