For Christmas this year, my husband gifted me a Birdock. This is a birdfeeder with a built in camera. It is solar powered and captures pictures of birds as the feed from the feeder. It can host either hummingbirds or regular birds who eat birdseed. After it was installed, it took almost a week before we received our first visitor…GERALDINE!
Geraldine, or Geri, we believe could be a female rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) or a female broad-tailed hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus). Broad-tailed hummingbirds commonly spend the breeding season in the southwestern United States and winter in Mexico. Phoenix is slightly north of the wintering regions for rufous hummingbirds, who spend the warmer seasons in the Pacific Northwest.
Maybe Geri didn’t get the memo to head south this year.
Geri has been our only visitor so far to the Birdock. It has been a little on the chilly side recently which may be contributing to the lack of traffic in our backyard. I expect activity to really pick up in March. Here are a few shots of Geri we’ve caught this past week…
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