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As I sit and watch the hummingbird at my feeder I'm reminded of this poem by D.H. Lawrence... Humming-bird I can imagine, in some otherworld Primeval-dumb, far back In that most awful stillness, that [...]

The 2021 migration banding hummingbird season has begun!  With more than 28 host locations days on the calendar and 7 different Hummingbird Festivals in Tennessee and Mississippi we're sure to encounter a good many and [...]

Our new t-shirt design was a huge success last year and we've had a few requests for shirts since the campaign ended in 2020. So we decided to hold a 2 week only event this [...]

Spring has sprung and soon those eggs you've noticed in your birdhouses, bushes or trees will begin to hatch.  And notoriously it's also the time baby birds are found on the ground and my phone [...]

Ruby-throated hummingbirds are making their spring return...day by day more and more are being seen and reported.  It's an exciting time for everyone!  We wait all winter for their return and like sand through [...]

Hummingbird spring migration is official underway, the first of the Ruby-throats are arriving on the coast and winter hummingbirds still present are getting ‘fat’ in preparation for their journey ‘home’.  With all this and [...]

A phone call in almost a year ago began a series of events that culiminated in a wonderful story on NPR's!  Here's the link to the story. https://wpln.org/post/more-winter-hummingbirds-are-spotted-in-tennessee-giving-data-on-these-elusive-creatures/ I hope you take a few minutes [...]

Exciting news was received on 12/28/20 when veteran bander and colleague Fred Bassett called me to report he had recaptured a hatch-year male Allen's Hummingbird wearing one of my bands at a host home [...]