Brief sighting around 4-23 in blooming Forsythia bush sucking nectar from a tiny yellow blossom.
A thrill. Crimson head, iridescent lime green back.
Others at feeder daily since 4-25 are Calliope and perhaps another type I can't identify with certainty.
Currently daily/frequent visitors:
one Goldfinch pair (not like the good ole days, alas)
a few red winged blackbirds
white crowned sparrows
downy & hairy woodpeckers & flickers
quail
chickadees
robins
house finch
wrens
at least one bluebird pair (not as many as prior years)
towhee
black headed grosbeak
hummingbirds, calliope & . . . ?
Mary Benham
West Spokane County, on dry prairie above Trails Rd, off Euclid Rd.