Date: 09/16/2010

Number: 1

I can joyfully report we still have three hummers. I can't accurately report their sexes. It looks like two juveniles and one female. The juveniles have really gained weight and some color over the last two weeks. I think they are juveniles because they are more skitish, they are interested in us and look at us directly by flying up to the porch screens and looking right in. One was very put off by the construction activity in the yard near one of the feeders. I saw it come down to the feeder and fly away without eating many times. This same bird was on the feeder ten feet away from the kitchen window, when it saw me watching it it flew within an inch or two of the window and checked out me and the room I was in very thoroughly. It was pretty amazing and unnerving. I loved it! That is why I think it is a juvenile. Our regular hummers are completely unperterbed by my presence, even coming down right next to me when I am changing the feeder. Thanks for this site. I just love the awe of tracking the monarch and hummer migrations.

Tyaskin, MD

Latitude: 38.2 Longitude: -75.9

Observed by: therese
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