Hummingbird Migration 2024

The Hummers are making their way across the Gulf.
They’re starting to show up in the Southern most states.
https://www.hummingbirdcentral.com/hummingbird-migration-spring-2024-map.htm

I’ve not been very happy with feeders the past few years, with them leaking.
I tried a new style feeder last year that worked out really well.
It’s one of the cheapest ones at Lowes. But, works great.
It has a ~9″ diameter clear base that’s about an inch deep and has a metal thread insert in the middle of it. The red top just sits o top of the base .
The hanging rod passes through the top and screws into the flat base.
I picked up another one of these flat feeders that can’t leak this winter.
I’m anxious to set them out.

They’ve reach the Southern borders of Tennessee & Missouri.

Leavenworth Ks, and one sighting both East in Ohio and one to the West in Colorado.

Hummers have made it to the Southern border of Illinois.
I’ll put my feeders out either next weekend or the second weekend in April.

They’ve made it to St. Louis. Looks like some of them are following the Mississippi River.

Our town Facebook group has already had a couple of random, 1-off reports of a few early arrivals… I guess there’s always bound to be a few, especially given the warm early spring. Walking through the woods this weekend I did see a few early blossoms, but I think anything this far ahead of the pack is going to have a rough go…

Mid 70s this weekend will bring sightings all the way up to the Twin Cities I’d imagine.

I see a report on hummingbirdcentral of a sighting in Des Moines on 4/8.

They’ve made it to Green Bay.
I’ll put my feeders out this weekend.

Any Minnesota reports yet? Orioles?

i keep track/make notes of my gardening stuff, also started writing down when i put up the bird feeders……the past 2 years i’ve put the hummingbird feeders and oriole feeders up the first week in may!!!!

so thats on my list for next week!!!!!!

the odd thing is, with the totally different springs the past 2 years, this one seeming early and the year before never seemly getting here, ….. we are not very far apart from when i’ve started the garden or put up the bird feeders.

I havent seen any orioles or hummers yet. We usually have orioles every spring but then the disappear come mid summer no idea why.

CaptainMusky wrote:

I havent seen any orioles or hummers yet. We usually have orioles every spring but then the disappear come mid summer no idea why.

same here!!!!! they seem to leave after there done nesting???????

i still leave the feeders out until the wasps become a problem!!!!

Glenn that is what I figured too. Still love to see them but I wonder where the heck they go? Perhaps to the river or something I think.

Anyone seeing morning doves? They appear to be AWOL here??

Same here with Orioles. They come in hot in the spring then leave after nesting.
No Orioles yet at my place. My resident cabin catbird hasn’t shown up yet either. There has been one nesting in my yard for years. Thought I heard a Thrasher yesterday but it may have been a drunk robin.
Edit-I can see it from a distance but looks like a Catbird which has a very similar song to the Thrasher.

glenn57 wrote:

Anyone seeing morning doves? They appear to be AWOL here??

I’ve been seeing them for awhile, and saw about 10 this morning.

I have a pair of mourning doves in Cottage Grove. Saw a flicker today in Ravine Park.

glenn57 wrote:

Anyone seeing morning doves?

Been seeing a bunch and hearing quite a few more.

I hear doves every morning. THey never left for the winter here.

I’ve had at least 4 doves for about a week and a half. No catbirds or orioles yet. HB feeder went out today.

Chickadees are my favorite.

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finally seen a pair of doves earlier this week, looked like that wanted to add on to a nest from last year!!!!

but the oriole and hummer feeders out yesterday also!!!

I saw a killdeer in Woodbury and a few cranes in Prescott. Lots of turkey vultures too.

The little hummers finally showed up at my house today.
I saw them at my feeders at least 6 times today.
They were looking pretty skinny.

I have lights strung on a cable around our patio, and there is a female hummingbird (assuming it’s always the same one) that sits on the cable all the time. She literally perches there more than she’s not there. Sometimes, she lets others eat on the feeder while she’s there, and other times, she dive bombs them. They’re so fun to watch!

Thats really cool I see them sit in our lilacs every once in a while. Those little buggers dont sit long!

They are 100% at my cabin in NW Sconny along with Orioles. Its spring!

Here’s our little friend sitting on her usual perch.

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Today I saw a pileated woodpecker flying across Radio Dr in the middle of Woodbury. And then another one behind it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pair of them before.