CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The broad-tailed hummingbird flitted around blooming Alabama crimson honeysuckle Thursday afternoon right on schedule and alit at the hummingbird feeder below the kitchen window of Deanna and Doug Uphoff’s ranch house northwest of Champaign.
Ten minutes earlier I had pulled off, guessing this was the right place seeing Steve Zehner with his long camera and two other birders waiting under a maple holding most of its yellowing leaves. All eyes and Zehner’s Canon R5 were focused, waiting, for the first confirmed Illinois sighting of a broad-tailed hummingbird to reappear.
