Humming Birds

I was watching a humming bird drink from the feeder today and thought I'd ask my Mom to see what kind it was. Here's what we found out!

The Rufous Hummingbird nests in the northwest all the way up to Alaska. It is often abundant in migration throughout the west. It occasionally shows up in the southeast during the winter months.

Rufous hummingbird is probably the most hardy of all the hummer species that nest in the United States and Canada. They are beautiful and hateful, real ‘junk yard dogs’.
The Rufous has an excellent memory for location, no doubt assisting it to find flowers from day to day, or even from year to year. Some birds have been seen returning from migration and investigating where a feeder was the previous year, even though the feeder was currently absent.