Marty’s photo of the day #5044: Because of the warm weather, I moved my writing room outside to the porch earlier than usual. The memory and intelligence of hummingbirds astounds me. Not only can they remember exactly where the feeder was last year, but they also know that humans need to fill it up and put it out for them.

I knew the moment the hummingbirds arrived from their migration, because they started buzzing me: “Put down that computer. We’ve traveled thousands of miles and we’re hungry!”

Deb had a feeder ready for them within the hour. Since the light was good yesterday, I worked on photographing hummingbirds as they landed on branches and then took off. This is a male rufous hummingbird.