Very nice video Pete. We are still waiting in Michigan. If I haven’t posted this, here is a live migration map at the bottom of this page. You can even report your sightings to help others. Click on a bird and you will see the sighting date. Updated today.
https://www.hummingbirdcentral.com/hummingbird-migration-spring-2025-map.htm
Cool! Happy April, everyone!
(I didn’t want to jinx it by posting on April 1. ;-) . . )
No hummingbirds here yet. That’s a slight surprise, as our buckeye trees are almost all blooming now, and that’s usually the “signal to look out for the hummingbirds. But... they may sense this 4 days of rough weather we have coming in later today. NWS is saying we have a high risk of long track EF3+ tornados late this afternoon through this evening, plus large hail (better get a few plants in), heavy rain, and high straight line winds over large areas. (Heck, the gusts B4 the storms even get here are projected around 55 mph.) Then we get 3 more days of slightly lower severe risk and even heavier rains, especially Friday and Saturday, when NWS expects at least some “catastrophic flooding”.
I have our ditches clear for now, but one follows a tree line and then a woodlot: There’s about 1000 ft. of “trouble” waiting to happen there, esp. as our neighbor never clears their 300(?) ft. along that woodlot. At least the county came by and pushed the big tree that had recently fallen into the ditch along the neighbor’s section up into the woods.