After flying thousands of miles, the hummingbirds are almost home. The tiny avian wonders have already been reported along the Gulf Coast and halfway into Alabama and Georgia.
There are more than 330 hummingbird species in the Americas, but the ruby‑throated is the only species to nest in East Tennessee after a long migration of thousands of miles from Central America, according to a news release from the University of Tennessee Arboretum Society.
Join the UT Arboretum Society via Zoom on 7 p.m. Thursday, April 9, as Michelle Campanis, education coordinator at the UT Arboretum, and naturalist/author Stephen Lyn Bales give an overview of hummingbirds. Watch the virtual presentation from home, learn when then hummingbirds will be back and why they need more than sugar water in their feeders…