One of the things we miss about the mainland. Used to love finding their tiny nests and watching the babies grow. One nest we found after it was abandoned had been fashioned with my clipped hair from my outdoor haircuts by the wife. Slim pickings now.
Pan-heat or micro combined cup hot coffee, 5 oz Nestle evap/milk,
1/4 c canned pumpkin, 1-2 tsp sugar, 1/8 tsp pumpkin pie spice.
Carefully pour into mugs. Foam up some milk for the top
(shake in a jar if you don't have a foamer).
SERVE w/ homemade oatmeal cookies.
The one that stayed so long this year made me wonder just how they decide to leave - what tells them, why would this one wait so long, etc.
There’s a great little book called ‘A Hummingbird In My House’ about a hummer who failed to migrate one year, and stayed in a woman’s sun room all winter. Other species sometimes decide not to migrate occasionally, for reasons that we don’t understand...
https://www.amazon.com/Hummingbird-My-House-Story-Squeak/dp/0517577291
-JT