Couldn't believe my eyes! I just saw a hummingbird! Honest! DH and I had just come in from working in the yard and were sitting on the back porch just noting that it had already stopped raining and had rained just enough to get things wet. (It had just started raining before we came in as a front is moving through and it had gotten cloudier all afternoon.) I glanced over across through my neighbor's yard and saw this hummingbird hovering over my neighbors grapefruit tree. We walked over towards it but still on our screen in pool area. I couldn't tell what type as it is very overcast. It took off and we lost sight of it. We ran in and cleaned up our two hummingbird feeders and hung them in view from our breakfast area, hope to see it again.

Mary, did you see if it was a ruby-throat? If so, you should post it on the map.

I'm excited. I'm going to be looking tomorrow morning.

No, it was so overcast and we were inside the pool screen and it was about 15ft away. I think it must have been sitting on a dead branch of the grapefruit tree, resting. It was a side view, I could see the length of its beak. About the time my DH saw it, it flew. I am in hopes it will be around tomorrow. I have only seen one three other times, twice last year nearly in the same spot. The other time was years ago. Do you think it was a migratory one? Don't we have some that stay here all year? I was going to report it but it seemed there were no other dots on the map. Other posts mention them being in Broward area for a while. Remind me how to report it.

In the first message on this thread I have a link to the migration map. If you go there you will see how to report a sighting. You should be sure that it's a Ruby-throat though.

If he comes back it might be pretty easy to identify him because the first ones that migrate are usually adult males of some years of age--meaning that they will have the tell-tale ruby-colored throat.

Yes, there are some Ruby-throats that stay in southern Florida year-round, but I don't believe that they migrate. We do have some Rufous that visit in winter months. I saw one last year, but not this year.

Let me know if you see your hummer again, Mary.

You lucky dogs! We just got 20 inches of snow yesterday. Sigh...

Awesome, I put my feeder out this week I am hoping they will be early here too! I will let ya'll know as soon as I spot one!

Haven't seen him again. But it has been cold the last two days. Maybe he is wondering why he left South so soon. But it should be warmer by Wednesday. Hope he stays around for a while.

Have been watching but still no sign of the little one I saw a week ago. It has been warming up here,hope he still is around. Have you seen any, Tom?

Went out this morning at dawn, Mary, but didn't see any. They should be here. They started arriving from Mexico on February 20th last year.

I think the one you saw was a traveling Rufous. The Ruby-throats are the ones that migrate from Mexico. There are some Ruby-throats, however, that reportedly stay all year in southern Florida.