Insider Birding Access
What are they doing right now?
Hummingbirds are doing something different in your yard every season of the year — arriving, nesting, feeding young, moving through, leaving, or wintering somewhere you'd never guess. Most of it happens whether you notice or not.
A few times a year, we'll tell you what's happening where you are — seasonal updates and the occasional member offer, timed to the birds rather than to a marketing calendar. Joining takes about thirty seconds, and there's 10% off your first order in it.
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What you get
Seasonal notes for your region
Spring arrival, summer breeding, fall departure, and where they spend the winter — written for your region, not for the country at once. Follow one state or several.
Feeders out at the right time
The spring note lands while there's still time to get set up, timed to your region rather than to the country at once. No counting back from a national map — we've done that part.
Every state cheat sheet in one place
One page per state: the species you'll actually see, when to hang feeders, nectar change schedules by temperature, and which plants sold as hummingbird plants you shouldn't buy. Free to everyone — members just get them all together.
10% off when you join
A welcome code, sent with your state's guide and cheat sheet. Use it on whatever you need to get set up — feeder, nectar, swing, seed.
One member savings event, every spring
Timed to the season getting going in your region — the one time of year it actually matters to have everything ready. Member pricing applies at checkout when you're signed in, with no code to hunt down.
Where the information comes from
Every state we cover is built from ten years of eBird sightings records, worked down to county level, then checked against state wildlife agencies, university extension programs, and the ornithology literature. Where the data doesn't support something people commonly say about hummingbirds, we say that instead.
Show us your hummingbirds
Half the fun of this is comparing notes. Send us your photos and videos — a first arrival, a standoff at the feeder, a bird that's claimed your swing as its own, or something you can't quite identify. We feature them in the seasonal notes and share them with the rest of the community, so everyone gets to see what's happening in yards from Maine to Arizona.
It genuinely helps, too. Your first-arrival sightings sharpen the timing we send to everyone else in your region — the more people watching, the better the picture gets.
Send us your photos and videos →
We'll always ask before using anything, and we'll credit you by whatever name you'd like — or keep you anonymous if you'd rather.
Why we made this
Pop's Birding is a third-generation family company in Idaho. Our grandfather invented the hummingbird swing, and we still make what we sell.
The guides came out of a simple problem: almost everything written about hummingbirds is written for the whole country at once, and hummingbirds don't work that way. Gainesville peaks in July and August. Miami is empty then, and busiest from October through February. That's one state.
So we did it state by state, and now season by season.
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