Allen’s Hummingbird

I love when they show off their colors! These birds live in California and Oregon, USA during the summer, but will migrate as far south as southern Mexico in the winter. Their diet consists of mostly nectar and insects. When they get nectar at flowers, they’ll hover in the air and stick their bill into the flower. To get insects, they sometimes will pluck a spider or its trapped prey from a spiders web! I find the Allen’s Hummingbird to be very noticeable and active in California, you can’t go outside there without one of these birds buzzing by…