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My CEO & I are migrating north to our Mtn home in a weekish...I can hardly wait to be home.
Will put up Hummer feeder as soon as we return, though at our elevation it usually takes a day or several for our local and transients to show up.
We have dozens of different species and varietals of bromeliads in our yard/lanai that I have planted over the past decade, and an occasional transient hummer will stop and investigate...this species attracted a few that I noticed, but never had my cam handy.
I drove up on Thursday in a convertible roadster in the pouring rain. Driving through the mountains in the fog and heavy rain with people zooming by at 85mph through a construction zone was unpleasantly exciting. But glad to be here. Motordavid, I’ve seen your posts on the Sarasota forum. I’m not missing Sarasota.
This next week is supposed to be beautiful. No rain with highs in the 70s and low 80s. Hummingbirds will be back in full force soon. The mild winter weather in WNC the last couple of years has really surprised us. We were expecting much colder with frozen participation. This area really does have near perfect weather. So blessed to live here…
No hummers here but we don't put out feeders and have nothing of interest to them blooming yet. Won't be long till the Amsonia Blue Star is blooming and then they'll they show up. Right now the Snowball Viburnum is putting on a show and all manner of bees are having a field day but I never see hummers around it.
Saw our first today in Yancey county. We have an azalea in full bloom right out my wife's office window and that's usually where we see them first. Time to fill the feeders!
Of some interest...
Typically, we only see male hummers here on Cold Mtn in early-to-mid April. The females usually follow ~2 weeks later. A couple of days after our first (male) hummer showed up, we noticed one female hummer doing aerial battle around our feeders alongside 3 males. A little unusual given previous experience.
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