I wondered if the rufous hummingbird would show up to spend the winter in our yard, as it had for the past four years. The Western hummingbird always arrived in August. Maybe it was just late this ...

A rufous hummingbird showed up at our hummingbird feeders despite temperatures in the low teens and a snow-covered backyard under dense cloud cover. The plump male bird, with a deep-red throat and ...

A Rufous hummingbird. Credit: Wendy Miller/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Rufous hummingbird has a reputation as one of the continent’s most tenacious birds of its size. Weighing less than a nickel and ...

They’re back. As I look out our kitchen window, there is a swarm of rufous hummingbirds in our garden area. They are perched in the trees, feeding on flowers and attempting to perch on one of our many ...

As September, ends the yellow flowers of wild goldenrods are joined by the lavender, blue, pink or white blossoms of asters. They, like so many other flowers that bloom now, are members of the ...

August is the peak of hummingbird season in Teller County. Our local breeder is the Broad-tailed, but starting in July a couple of others move in: the Rufous and Calliope. They are all greenish in ...

The broad-tailed hummingbird was feeding noisily at the feeder when a bolt of copper shot from the sky right toward it. Flashes of red, green and orange filled the air as the two miniature-flying ...

Iowa, along with much of the Eastern United States, gets the short end of the stick when it comes to hummingbird diversity. The ruby-throated hummingbird comprises Iowa's only regular and nesting ...

Not just any hummingbird, but a rufous hummingbird, a Western bird that should be lounging in Mexico this time of year. The species, which breeds in Alaska and Southwestern Canada, had never been seen ...

A Steamboat Springs resident for 52 years and a retired middle school science teacher, Winston Walker is among many hummingbird enthusiasts who are paying close attention to the flashy hummers at ...

As September ends the yellow flowers of wild goldenrods are joined by the lavender, blue, pink, or white blossoms of asters. They, like so many other flowers that bloom now, are members of the ...