Here are a few updates to the annual Martha’s Vineyard Christmas Bird Count that was held on Dec. 28.

Harry Beach and Karen Merlino report that the rufous hummingbird “is doing fine and visited their heated feeder at 6:55 a.m. on Dec. 14.

I have taken down my bird feeders following a recommendation from Brice Boutot, the Edgartown health agent, due to dead birds on the Island testing positive for avian flu.

Almost two months of winter are yet to come, but signs of spring are becoming more plentiful.

An almost rainbow-colored male painted bunting has been at a feeder in Falmouth this first week of January.

It is a bit early in the year for shorebirds to show up on their northward migration. It is still February, after all.