I brought my new hummingbird feeders home on Tuesday, and filled them with homemade sugar nectar that afternoon. I hung the fancier set off the front porch, where they can be seen from the kitchen window, and hung the more utilitarian set off the bathroom window, where they can be seen from the backyard, and more importantly, can't be seen from the other set of feeders.
By Wednesday, I had hummingbirds.
By Thursday, I had to refill the smaller utilitarian feeder.
This morning, just standing around getting ready for work, I saw two hummingbirds visit the smaller feeder, and at least three different hummingbirds visit the larger front porch feeder. At one point, one of the hummingbirds was spooked by the chickadees building a nest 5 feet away, and the hummer flew over to the giant rose of sharon bush where I keep most of my birdfeeders and the birdbath. It actually perched on the top of the bush, and let me check it out with my binoculars. What a beautiful iridescent red bib it had! From flipping through my bird books, I'd have to say it was an Anna's hummingbird, but it also looks like we had some rufous hummingbirds this morning.
In my area (the great Pacific Northwet, just north east of Portland, Oregon), we have Anna's hummingbirds all year round, and we have rufous hummingbirds in the warmer parts of the year. There may be others, but those are the ones I've been told to keep an eye out for.
Didn't think the little guys would find the food so quickly! Makes me doubly determined to plant some actual plant-type food sources for them soon.
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