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Do you get hummers in the winter? MIne have all left, and won't be back until April.
Anna's hummingbirds are year round on the pacific coast and are occasionally even seen in winter in Utah. Someone just a few miles from my house here had one last Decenber through late February. I have a feeder up just in case and am thinking I'll buy a heated feeder if I see one around or see reports of it in the area this year.
Interestingly, reports of Anna's Hummingbirds in the Salt Lake Valley are almost exclusively in winter.
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Wow -- you guys are so lucky! I miss my hummers terribly in the winter, and am so excited to see the first ones return in the Spring!
It's still quite rare in northern Utah, but it does happen. All the hummingbird species that we have in summer do migrate south. It's just that for some odd reason the Anna's are extra cold tolerant and winter in the snow. Which is why the heated feeders are a thing.
MissySki
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I agree with this sentiment, miss mine so much as well! In MA they don't start to come back until around the first week of May and then they usually leave in September.
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It's an interesting story (below). Their bodies can go into torpor when it's cold. They do sometimes freeze to death, though. They aren't THAT hardy. And other times they can look like they've died but they can be revived. We always have a couple cold spells, maybe with snow, so it's really important to have nectar available right when they need it at daybreak.
Although you wouldn’t think it to look at them, Anna’s hummingbirds seem to be among those scrappy few species, alongside the likes of racoons and crows, that actually thrive on city life. In fact, they didn’t always live this far north, but they have expanded their range in response to human activity.
They were originally restricted to southern California where they could travel up and down mountain slopes to catch blooming gooseberries at any time of year. But they have followed the open habitats and introduced winter-blooming plants of gardens and parks both north and east. Today, they can be found in human-modified habitats along the entire west coast.
Although you wouldn’t think it to look at them, Anna’s hummingbirds seem to be among those scrappy few species, alongside the likes of racoons and crows, that actually thrive on city life. In fact, they didn’t always live this far north, but they have expanded their range in response to human activity.
They were originally restricted to southern California where they could travel up and down mountain slopes to catch blooming gooseberries at any time of year. But they have followed the open habitats and introduced winter-blooming plants of gardens and parks both north and east. Today, they can be found in human-modified habitats along the entire west coast.
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Ursula
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I am not a birder either, but our friend Laura was! 
I Feed the birds during the cold Montana winter months and enjoy watching them while I read the newspaper in the morning. ;)
Everyone: have a fun winter and ski a lot!
I Feed the birds during the cold Montana winter months and enjoy watching them while I read the newspaper in the morning. ;)
Everyone: have a fun winter and ski a lot!
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I was in Tucson Arizona last week, and saw this very cool hummingbird at the Sonoran Desert Museum.. I was kicking myself for not bringing my real camera as all I had was my phone. I took a video too which is really cool because as the bird turns his head his face goes from black to bright purpley/pink.. back and forth. Not sure if I can easily post that here?
Pretty sure it’s a Costa’s male.
I didn’t get any pictures, but my other favorite bird to see was a roadrunner.. it was so cool!! It was sort of funny because I golfed one day and within the span of 3 holes I saw a coyote and then a roadrunner, sort of felt like I was in a cartoon! Lol
Pretty sure it’s a Costa’s male.
I didn’t get any pictures, but my other favorite bird to see was a roadrunner.. it was so cool!! It was sort of funny because I golfed one day and within the span of 3 holes I saw a coyote and then a roadrunner, sort of felt like I was in a cartoon! Lol
Beautiful! Hummingbird feathers are iridescent, so they change color when the light hits them. The Southwest has several different types -- here in TN we only have Ruby Throated hummers.
The golf course that I used to play on in Las Cruces had all kinds of cool critters: roadrunners (they're much bigger than you'd think, aren't they?), coyotes, burrowing owls, cactus wrens, jackrabbits, deer....You never knew what was going to pop up! I loved it!
The golf course that I used to play on in Las Cruces had all kinds of cool critters: roadrunners (they're much bigger than you'd think, aren't they?), coyotes, burrowing owls, cactus wrens, jackrabbits, deer....You never knew what was going to pop up! I loved it!
MissySki
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We only have Ruby Throated in MA too.. I’m so jealous of places that have different varieties! Yeah, I was completely taken with the area.. the animals and the cacti, I’m now a total giant Saguaro cactus geek. Lol Don’t even get me started on the food too.. like New Mexico, I am totally obsessed. I did multiple guided hikes while there, to have company hiking along with learning more about the landscape and animals. So fascinating! I already miss hiking for a couple of hours every morning amongst the huge cacti.. felt like I was on another planet. When I got home I ordered a couple of books to learn more about them. I also bought some little cacti to bring home, and really hope I can keep them alive inside!
How fun! I'd tend to agree on your ID, based on my Peterson guide, anyway.
Only ruby-throats here in MN; I have seen a returning male this year already
My native plants are all ready to go, and probably should beef up the window shielding so no one crashes in territory wars!Seeing orioles and grosbeaks and towhees and yellow warblers lately, etc, etc -- my local parks are in a great migration path!
Still so slow to upload all the DivaEast photos/vids, plus all the new garden ones from @Quiver Queen 's fancy DSLR camera donation for my bee chasing. I might get to it by fall... maybe?
Just wanted to add... if any of you are on iNaturalist, I'm shadoj there too! Trying to document the native species moving back into the north part of an ongoing restoration of a local favorite park (trout brook / spring-fed). Just taught a fellow first-time visiting photographer what a drumming grouse sounds like! (whump. Whump. Whump.. Whumphmp whupmpmphmph). Or something. Gets you in the gut. Silly birds.
I'm Connie43 on iNat.
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