It’s happened! It seems like magic that it is exactly one year after the date when the first Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) arrived in 2021. Amazing!

This first arrival is a male (though these images are of females at the height of Hummingbird season 2016). That’s usually the case. Males are the first to leave their wintering site, heading back to their summer homes. They arrive first to get things in order, finding the perfect territory for enchanting the females, and begin to defend it. Those females generally arrive a week to a week and a half later. Soon, fun time!