The hummers have arrived and, for the record, they made it without the help of geese.
Favorites of every homeowner with a backyard of flowers or a porch with a red-accented sugar-water-filled feeder, ruby-throated and black-chinned hummingbirds are returning to Oklahoma.
Likely, strong southerly winds have helped them along as numbers of first-sighting reports started the first of April but increased noticeably mid–month, and “new” sightings trickled to a few through the month. To settle an old wive’s tale, the geese had nothing to do with this.