Date: 09/16/2025

Number: 7

An adult male ruby-throat made a brief stop at a nectar feeder and was chased off by an adult female. I guess he decided not to stick around. Still have at least a half-dozen ruby-throats though. Hummers have really started streaming through. I wanted to say 8 hummers were seen as there is an immature male I think is a new arrival but I am not cartain of that. Most activity was at black-and-blue salvias, cigar flowers, and purple agastache, as well as catching insects. Yesterday as I was putting out several feeders under trees a ruby-throat would drop down to the feeder to lay claim as soon as I stepped away. At one feeder 3 popped out of a spruce tree to check out what I was doing. So funny! Nectaring at feeders was mostly in late evening. A rope I put out in early summer as a convenient perch for the rthb's was finally used this evening by a few of them. I have had the rope out in prior years but it has not been used much this year. Glad to see it used! Feeding cutoff this evening was 7:32 p.m. cdt.

St Paul, MN

Latitude: 45 Longitude: -92.9

Observed by: Mike
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