Fall is nearly here in Michigan and hummingbirds are already making their trek southward for winter.
A digital map from Hummingbird Central offers a chance to track hummingbird sightings across Michigan and North America, with fall migration season showing the birds on their way to Mexico and Central America for the winter.
Bird watchers across the Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula continue to report hummingbird sightings statewide as of mid-September, the map shows, but some of the descriptions call them "stragglers," suggesting many are long gone.
If you missed hummingbirds this season, don't worry, they'll be back come spring.
Here's what to know about hummingbird migration.
When is fall hummingbird migration season?
Hummingbirds typically migrate south in the fall from