Ours are a little slow showing up so maybe we're early too. Have a few, looking forward to more like last year.

We put our feeders up 2 weeks ago but haven't seen any yet either.

Haven't seen a hummingbird ever in the neighborhood, probably the flowers they like to visit are sparse and far-flung to make any home, but have learned lots about them on this site over the past few years.

But in the way of bird-talk, I've noticed a change here through several decades.  In the eighties, much farmland was cleared in the outskirts to the north for subdivisions of the housing boom then.  Large blackbirds started to appear in pairs, don't know if they're crows or ravens but all black and large, about a foot tall, never seen before previously.  Very loud in the morning with their caws.  I'd imagine they had been dispersed from their usual habitat and some came toward the city, as a few coyotes did. 
  Previously the predominant aggressive bird was the blue jay, which over time seemed to disappear.  Many times a very small pair of sparrows could be seen through the sky trying to harass one of these large black birds while it flapped onward unperturbed. 

The last couple years now the big birds disappeared, locating eventually elsewhere, somewhere more suitable I guess, and just yesterday I saw my first blue jay again.  It was too close to a robin's nest and the male was flying about concerned. 

Things seem humming along normal again.   

A couple of years ago Kev, we started getting the same thing: Oversized crows no doubt from a nether world. These things have been trying to kill me for two years now and are really pissed off when I show up in the back yard. Our blue jays are tough though. They could care less.

We even get a blue bird once or twice in winter up here. The things are beautiful. No one in my neighborhood has a hummingbird feeder though. Too bad because bird watching is BIG here because of Roger Tory Peterson.

Charlie

O.K. forget the fact that the Redbud, Iris' and Lilacs are blooming.  Tonight Jim and I were having a glass of wine out on our back deck and I saw our first fire-fly (lightening bug).

Tis Spring offically for me now.  Bring it on!!!!!!

Cant' have a hummingbird feeder here.  Cats would think that I was providing them with a snack.  Several bird species are courting here and they make a bad mistake and do it on the ground.  Then Graybaby has himself a snack.

OTOH, I saw a firefly couple of weeks ago.  For years, you didn't see them (or not very many).  Quite a few were killed off due to pesticides.  They are making a comeback.

Got plenty of mourning doves and whipporwills though.

Mosaicwench wrote on Apr 29^th, 2010 at 12:31pm:

And they have scared the living shit out of me on numerous occasions.

It's snowing such big flakes it would take a humming bird to the ground.  It 's spring in Montana.

           Potter

By the way--this is probably interesting only to me, but a few people have asked me over the years how, when hummingbirds show up so early around here, do they manage to find anything to eat?  Nothing much is flowering yet.

The answer has to do with the symbiotic relationship between hummingbirds and sapsuckers. 

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There you go--more than you wanted to know, eh?   

Best,

George

Actually George. the article was fascinating! 

I saw my first Baltimore Oriole last week - he loves my home-made grape jelly.  I also see the sap suckers, which I mistook for small woodpeckers.  So now I know the difference.  Thank you!