Hummingbirds

It must be time for the hummingbirds to migrate south. We saw our first hummingbird just now. It was the first one since we saw one this Spring. We can't figure out what happened to them. Wondered if they got caught in many of the big storms and tornadoes that we had through the country this spring. We only have one pair of Goldfinch too and they haven't even brought any young ones to the feeders this year. It has been a strange year. Now they are talking a hard winter too so suppose the Robins will be leaving early. I am still seeing some of those around. I wonder if we will see any of the other birds passing through. The Monarch butterflies always pass through too. Won't be long, I suppose.

Happy Thursday Everyone

It is a beautiful sunny day today and supposed to get up to 61 degrees. I guess this is about normal for our area. It was over 80 the other day and we had terrific rain storms. It blew two semi trucks over on the freeway nearby with wind gusts of 66 mph. We got hard rain but we missed out on the wind and glad of that. Our first oriole showed up yesterday drinking out of the Hummingbird feeder. They are the most beautiful orange and black bird. You just want to stop and stare at them but they fly away pretty quickly. I got a new feeder up just in time as two Hummingbirds came also. One had a white throat and the other a yellow throat. Last year they were green all over so know these are different ones. Also had two Goldfinch so it must be warming up and they are finally coming back. All the birds are late this year. Our tulips, both red and yellow are blooming and violets and lots of other little flowers. It is sure nice to see them in bloom after a hard snowy winter.

Goldfinch, Hummingbirds and more

We had to get a new hummingbird feeder this morning as the old one was leaking the syrup right out of it. And the wind was blowing so hard the last few days that it blows the syrup out too. I put the new one up this morning and there was a little green hummingbird on it about noon. That is the first one we have seen. We have only seen 2 goldfinch so far. It is funny that the birds are not returning as early this year as they usually do. By now we should have feeders full of them. It is strange. We also had to seed the grass where it froze out last winter or the landlord ripped it out moving snow. We had so much snow this year.