If you love welcoming hummingbirds to your patio or garden every year, or set up a variety of feeders and anxiously await their arrival while your friends enjoy viewing hoards of regular visitors, then you may appreciate this website designed for tracking a variety of hummingbird species across the USA.
Hummingbird Central typically monitors the spring hummingbird migration from late-January to late May of each year, with the help of its viewers as they submit their first hummingbird sightings in their areas.
As of April 6, 2022, two sightings were reported in Connecticut, both were Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds. The first was very early in the season on March 25 in Berlin the second, this week on April 5 in Windsor.
The map is easy to navigate and your participation is crucial to keeping everyone up to date on the hummingbird migration in our area. The reporting process is simple and the more detailed you reporting (male or female, one or two, buzzing around spring flowers or at a feeder, etc.) the better. Around here, we usually see Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds, so know your species.
Now is a good time to fill your feeders as the temperature outside warms up. If the birds discover your property as a good place to find food, it is a great possibility that they will come back day after day, week after week, year after year.
If you are new to the hummingbird game, you should know what style of hummingbird feeder attracts the most birds. Learn about the best placement for your property.
You should know that you do NOT have to buy expensive bottled food. MAKE YOUR OWN! It’s EASY! What do you need? sugar and water — that’s all!
Instructions
- Consider using 4 cups of water and 1 cup of sugar. You can store left overs in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
- Using a medium sauce pan, bring water to a boil. Slowly add in the sugar stirring constantly. Once the sugar is added remove the boiler from the heat and continue to stir until the sugar is well blended.
- Allow it to cool completely and the add to your hummingbird feeder.
- Do NOT add red dye. It is NOT needed using a hummingbird feeder.
Hummingbird nectar needs to be changed if it is not eaten with in a week or so. The sugars in both homemade and store bought nectar can grow bacteria and yeast. This can be harmful and prevent your hummingbirds from coming back.
Change Your Hummingbird Food During Hot Weather.
Clean out the reservoirs and portals every time you change the sugar water.
Enjoy your tiny winged visitors!