Date: 10/05/2023

Number: 1

This beautiful little migrant appeared about 8:30 this morning. She stayed for about an hour and a half, meticulously working over a large bed of salvia coccinea before continuing her journey. As additional information, the last of our summer resident birds left October 1. A migrating juvenile male showed up on October 3, staying only long enough to nectar from the flowers twice. The bed where these flowers are is 20 by 8 feet. It’s a solid mass of salvia coccinea and has a shepherd’s hook holding a hummingbird feeder at each end of the bed. Neither migrating bird showed any interest in the feeders. They fed exclusively from the flowers, which are still blooming profusely.

Westminster, MD

Latitude: 39.7 Longitude: -76.9

Observed by: Judith
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