James Vancouver / Getty Images Rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) eating from flowers in a garden. When we see these birds they are typically migrating through Sonoma . (James Vancouver / Getty ...
On what turned out to be the earliest date yet we’ve recorded in our yard for a southward-bound rufous hummingbird, June 24 th, we heard the familiar castanet-like twittering call and spotted the ...
It is a little past 6:30 in the morning on Whidbey Island, in Washington’s Puget Sound, and despite the earliness of the hour and wretchedness of the weather, Dan Harville is admiring the torch lilies ...
On Christmas eve, mid-day, I saw a two- to four-inch dark orange/brown, or rufous bird about the size of a hummingbird, flitting around the trunk of a maple tree and making a tiny ‘"click" sound. None ...