{"id":541858,"date":"2026-03-24T06:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541858\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:58:16","slug":"hummingbirds-are-making-their-return-where-they-are-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541858\/","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbirds are making their return: Where they are now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV)  \u2014 Get your feeders ready because hummingbirds are heading back to Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Ruby-throated hummingbirds usually spend winter in parts of Central America or Mexico. They start working their way north in late January and early February.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sightings of ruby-throated hummingbirds. (Map: WZTV)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e68b3e05-1c7a-45cb-a573-33edcb699961-13.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sightings of ruby-throated hummingbirds. (Map: WZTV)<\/p>\n<p>According to the website hummingbirdcentral.com, ruby-throated hummingbirds have been spotted as far north as Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. They are expected to continue their northern trek over the next several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The website relies on people&#8217;s eyewitness reports and then posts them to its website. As of now, there have been sightings in Memphis, Cookeville, Clarksville, and Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>With nice weather ahead, more sightings are likely this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 Get your feeders ready because hummingbirds are heading back to Tennessee. Ruby-throated hummingbirds usually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-541858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}