Hummingbirds have arrived in western Upper Michigan

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6. I have never seen a hummingbird nest that I know of.

I did find an old nest in the middle of the azaleas when I was cleaning out the HellVines last week but I don't know what type of bird. The nest was pretty big so I'm guessing it was from a cardinal?

Speaking of nests there's usually a robin that makes a nest and lays eggs in our mailbox but most of the time that doesn't work because some mail guy replacement doesn't put the mail in the attached open cardboard box clearly marked MAIL in large letters on all sides. This year a different type of bird, larger and has yellow breast and the eggs aren't blue. I only saw her in the nest once. We're having the roof cleaned today and hope the noise doesn't make her leave the nest permanently.

I'm going to Loews today to look for red 4 o'clocks or red Impatiens if they don't have any of the preferred flowering plants.

Hold on hummers, the flowers are returning!