Date: 03/27/2014

Number: 1

It has been a long winter keeping the hummingbird feeders clean/filled/ and thawing out three times from freezes. And yes, we have a current cold front coming thru! I think the Rufous were something this past fall October 2013- March 2014. The photo attached is the remaining Rufous presently here. I had no idea we had four different Rufous until today as I was scanning winter hummingbirds from the camera dates. Rufous are definitely changing their routes or just abundant this past fall here in Houston.
My 7 year old grandson was thrilled last week while staying on spring break. I sat him under one of the 3 coral honeysuckles with the Rufous above his head sipping. We had to chop down and dig up 8 of the overwhelming Hamelia hummingbird bush the grew over 10 feet from not having any hard freezes for the past 2 winters, but left three Hamelia that will grow back from ground up. Coral honeysuckle is less trouble in my opinion. It blooms in January and all thru summer/fall, and does not freeze!. A female Chickadee is sitting on two eggs in the bluebird house(!)and comes to the seed feeder near one hummingbird feeder on her break. I love it!
B.L.
Houston

Houston, TX

Latitude: 29.8 Longitude: -95.4

Observed by: Beverly
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