Spotted a Ruby-throated hummingbird at my back deck feeder yesterday evening. He's back

[Walleye]

I’m glad to see he found my feeders on the windowsill as well. Because I put in some small ones instead of a large in size last year he caught on right away. I will be watching for them today and post a pic if I get one. He’s actually right on time as they arrived last week in April for the last few years. Always a male shows up first and usually in the evening.

[2naSalit]

1. Cool!

My big spring thrill happened last Sunday when I noticed a bird soaring over the ravine behind the property. It made its way closer, slowly enough for me to get my binos out and get a good look. It made a circle over me and I could clearly see that it was a male Peregrine falcon! I haven't had one circle over me since I worked in jellystone. It was silent and sweet on a soft breeze in a clear blue, springtime sky.

Everybody's showing up now and the eagles are on their nests near the river, spring is here.

[Walleye]

4. I love the Falcons, for years we had a peregrine falcon nesting on a 20th floor window in Wilmingt

[2naSalit]

7. I recall hearing about that one.

We have them around here but we don't see them all that often. There are lots of rocky outcroppings for them to do their nesting. But in the word the nest is merely a suggestion, seriously. There is a pair who nest in place where you can, with a scope or high powered binos, see straight into the nest, up above Tower Falls in the park. The eggs were just chocked up by a couple pebbles to keep them from rolling out of the nesting vestibule and off the cliff into the canyon. That's it, not grassy bed or anything, just right there on the pebbles/gravel. The chicks are fluffy puffs of white down until about six weeks. Takes about ten weeks from hatch to fledgling, like eagles.

[Walleye]

8. When I was shooting pictures for the paper I got to go up on a roof nearby

To photograph their nesting. And as I recall there wasn’t much to the nest, like you say

[Donkees]

2. Happy News :)

I add some wide red ribbons to their feeding area since there aren't many flowers yet, and it's been too cold for their favorite hanging baskets.

[Walleye]

3. Yes I put a few ribbons on mine too and an old red T-shirt on the chair up here

I’m convinced that this is the one of the birds that left here last year. Of course I could be wrong, but he knew right where to go

[Donkees]

5. If he knew right where to go then he's family :)

[Walleye]

6. I always think so, I've been having Ruby-throats to come back the last week of April for a few years