I have been reading all your messages about our "little
jewels". It is early this year but I believe they are beginning to migrate
. I always tell in my bird column, to keep their feeders out through the
fall as there are Hummingbirds much farther north that need food as they
come along on their way south. The males do go on ahead.
Hummers do eat insects. Recently I was sitting out in the
lawn and watched one as it went along the undersides of leaves on my Red Bud
tree and right by me at the maple tree with wings whirring. One of my
feeders is near a window and they sometimes fly along the edges of the
window to get any spiders, etc. there.
I always have lots of "boarders" and they seem to have gone
earlier this year - Catbirds, Robins, Bluebirds, etc. The orioles come
early, nest in a tall tree in my yard and mid- July they leave.
Enjoy the Birds,
Naomi Brewer
Sheldrake/Wyers Point
On Cayuga Lake
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