Just arrived a beautiful male. I'm so excited! Hopefully pictures soon.

Patti--Zone 8
Mobile, AL

Congrats Al-- great news!! I hope you will have some good photos of your first beautifull male .

Steve
Martinsville, In
Heat zone 6
Sunset zone 35

Congrats, congrats!

Sherry

Patti

You guys in Alabama are striking it rich lately!!! Enjoy..can't wait!! Pics pleeeeeeeeeease!

Pam NJ 6B

No luck here, but I have feeders up anyway. None of the plants here have even sprouted...much less bloomed yet. I'm right on the mid east Al. border.

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

Congratulations Patti! It is good to know they are moving in.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Patti how exciting for you. It seems there is at least one new sighting everyday.

MaryJane they are coming.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

Patti - Oh my that is exciting news! Makes all of us Northeners yearn to say the same thing - but patience, patience....

Dianne - Hope one will be gracing your yard next!~!

Carol
Milford, CT
Zone 6

Congrats, Patti....got a ways to wait yet. Boo Hoo

Joni
Elwood, IL
Zone 5

Patti
Your dot is on the map and I saw your report on Journey Notrth also. dianne, Dell and Becky could be any minute now as they are completely surrounding the Dothan area.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

NONE HERE! and my date last year was March 6th. Boo Hoo! Am I green?

Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

He was certainly in a hurry to get more northward! He only hung around for a couple of sips yesterday morning and left before 8:00 AM. South winds again today and then they become north winds tonight so it may be a few days before I see another one. Sigh...

Oh well, people to the north be on the lookout he's heading your way!

Patti--Zone 8
Mobile, AL

He couldn't have gone too far, it is bleak and gray and leafless up here and will remain so for at least another month.

Anyone in Alabama, have you been to Fort Morgan? There is Hummer/bird study group in the area. hummingbirdsplus.org

Jana
Montverde,Florida
USDA zone 9

I was just reading the dates in Bob Sargent's newsletter, Netlines. I have never been to the Ft. Morgan banding. A freid is wanting me to go to Orange Beach with her. Who knows we might just work it out to go on the dates of the banding. We always talk about it every year. We either seem to go a little too early or after the fact.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

oh patty congrats!!! I live in milton florida outside of pensacola so i hope to see some soon!!

Milton, Florida

Patti, when I lived in Gulfport, the hummers would come through in March, stay briefly, and then disappear until around late June or early July - then they'd stay until around mid-October. Is that what happens where you are? I don't think they like to nest in the city.
Since I moved to the country in 1997, the hummers come in March and stay until October. I love it - I get to see the courtship dances! One day I hope to find a nest.


Sherry

Sherry, I will get a steady flow of hummingbirds for the next couple of months and then I usually have one male and one female stay around. They will come to the feeders in the early morning and late afternoon/evening. I think they nest in my back woods but I haven't ever found a nest. In July the numbers start picking up starting with the juveniles and I will have hummingbirds steadily until late October/early November with the peak around the second week of September.

Patti--Zone 8
Mobile, AL

oh ohoh they're in south Bama! That's exciting. Mom's sitter cracked up when she looked on my deck Monday. I've put everything red I can find out there trying to make a little beacon for them. We had to cut the trumpet honeysuckle back by 2/3 to replace the trellis back in the winter, so there really wasn't any plants in the yard to draw them. Still hoping mama is the first in the house to spot them. She was last year, I think.

I DID hear a flock of geese fly over Monday morning.
dell

Congratulations Patti
I saw my first Yellow-rumped Warblers today so spring must be close by here.

Zone 6b New Jersey

visit my hummer photos athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/38829896@N00/

Congratulations Patti!

New Jersey
Zone 6