Here are 119 new sightings for your migration map. Maps courtesy of Lanny Chambers. If your hummingbirds haven't reached you yet, they are probably flapping their wings about 75 times per second to make it home again. But they can do more than just fly forward. You're probably quick to say that both can fly backwards, forwards, and hover in one place.
Hummingbirds can even fly upside down.
These tiny critters seem to know that they are tough targets for larger, slower enemies who might move in to attack. It's all because they're awesome aerial aviators. My first sighting is, as usual, a direct sounding. The little guys come dive bombing my head, with a peculiar chirp that is only theirs, then they fly out over the water and circle around the house at the usual high speed, looking for the feeder. Bird expert Laura Erickson describes a situation at one hummingbird feeding station in the southwest, where visitors are sometimes given sugar-water feeders to hold out.