Hummingbirds are coming, hummingbirds are coming

I’ve been checking out this map every day to see how far north the migrating Ruby-throated Hummingbirds have traveled so far.

Every time I look at the map, I think about that Coca-Cola holiday commercial with the jingle ♫ Holidays are coming ♫ but I’m singing ♫ Hummingbirds are coming ♫ Hummingbirds are coming ♫

When I looked at the map this morning, sightings close to our home from the last couple of days were suddenly on the map! We just ran out to put up our feeder. According to previous year maps, hummingbirds typically reach our area in the second week of April.

Hummingbirds.net has a lot of great information on feeding hummingbirds and maintaining your feeders. Are you (going to be) feeding hummingbirds in your yard this year?

♫ Hummingbirds are coming! ♫ Hummingbirds are coming! ♫