Hummingbird Festival

At the end of May some residents in a local small town host a hummingbird festival where people who are certified to catch, band, track, and release hummingbirds gather. Sounds kinda nerdy but it was fun to see how they catch the hummingbirds harmlessly as they feed from the feeders measure and then put a band with a unique number on them. The information then goes in a registry where the birds migration can be tracked. We stayed for a short time, but by the end of the day they expected to track hundreds of different hummingbirds. What was super fun was once they did all their data entry they put the birds in a spectators hand and we were able to release it. Sometimes the birds would stick around for a few seconds before flying away. It was fun and Kate loved it!