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....is the most received question I've been asked this season.  It's a complicated question and not one that has a simple answer. First, one needs to consider the species of hummingbird. Since each has unique [...]

They're back!  Our Ruby-throated hummingbirds are returning as I type.  I personally have had one since April 3rd...pretty much on time for us.  Feeders were up, fresh and waiting for them. For those who are [...]

“What’s the best feeder for hummingbirds?”  It’s a question I’m asked all the time.  My usual answer is…’the one you can keep the cleanest’.  But that’s not what folks truly want to know!  Although [...]

Congratulations to SEAR for receiving a $500 research grant from The Tennessee Ornithological Society for ongoing hummingbird research!! We appreciate the gift and plan to use it to update some aging equipment. We look [...]

I often feel a bit in ‘limbo’ the week between Christmas and New Year’s.  The rush, the preparations, the excitement of the big day is all over and you sit around and just sort [...]

We have had a fantastic start to winter hummingbird banding this 21-22 season.  It started in August with reports of an adult male rufous hummingbird at the home of Mary Lodge.  We ventured over [...]

September 21, 2021 is officially the last day of summer and it is also our official last day of hummingbird migration banding for this season.   It was indeed a season of ups and [...]

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 [...]