This female has been hanging around longer. Haven't seen any males for awhile. She has been going through the sugar water bulking up for her big flight south shortly.
They've been drinking up a storm in Indiana, too. I will be sad to see them go but then we will start feeding the songbirds. And their rowdy friends, the woodpeckers. It's a beautiful capture, she looks so delicate.
We'll probably keep them until the end of the month - they're still in the chase mode here - have three - one male and two females - they, too, are hitting the feeder more often.
@maggiemae - This is a female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. Ruby-Throated Hummingbird: The most common summer hummer in the eastern United States, the ruby-throated hummingbird winters in small numbers in extreme southern Florida. Where Hurricane Irma could make landfall very soon.
@maggiemae - We do too! Our oldest daughter and two of her three children live in Panama City which is in northern Florida on the panhandle. So we've been praying that God will steer Irma out into the Atlantic away from land. The last we talked to her the computer models were predicting it would go up the east coast which would spare them from the eye.
