Help us help hummingbirds by spreading the words…”NO RED NECTAR”
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 [...]
So you’ve found a baby bird on the ground….
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-throats are returning from their wintering grounds! A few things to remember while you wait for yours to show up…
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 [...]
The 2020-2021 Winter Hummingbird research season comes to an end…
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 [...]
Bird Banter…a wonderful Podcast out of Washington State and this month features Hummingbirds!
Last month I had the pleasure of meeting Ed Pullen and recording an episode for his podcast "Bird Banter". We chatted about hummingbirds. Here's a link to the podcast...http://birdbanter.com/index.php/2021/02/22/the-bird-banter-podcast-92-with-cyndi-routledge-additional-info/ I invite you to listen and [...]
WINTER HUMMINGBIRDS AND NPR
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 [...]
Allen’s Hummingbird Re-encounter
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 [...]
Busy week for winter birds in the southeast
It was a busy Thanksgiving week for SEAR. We had multiple reports of winter hummingbirds that culminated in the banding of a juvenile male Allen's Hummingbird in Rutherford County, the second Allen's in Tennessee this [...]
Winter Hummingbird season off to a GREAT start
The 2020 Winter Hummingbird season is off to a terrific start in both Tennessee and Mississippi with multiple sightings and banding sessions. From the return male Rufous in Williamson County to a very late Ruby-throated [...]
2020 Ruby-throated Hummingbird banding season Wrap-up…
It’s hard to believe that we’re in mid-October already. Ruby-throated hummingbird migration banding season ended for the most part on September 29th with the banding of 5 very FAT birds including the fattest I’ve ever [...]