Jim and Laurel Stoner talk about their Hummingbird feeder on their balcony Tuesday at her apartment at Concordia in Cabot.

JEFFERSON TWP — On Tuesday, the first of Laurel and Jim Stoner's annual feathered guests arrived on the Stoners' balcony at Haven III of Concordia at Cabot.

Until the fall, the Stoners will watch the blur of wings as four or five hummingbirds dart to the feeder, hover, retreat and repeat, again and again.

“We have these old people's chairs,” Laurel Stoner said. “We sit and we can see the bird feeder, and we'll sit in the morning and have coffee and watch them.”

The couple has about 35 years of experience with the impressive creatures.

“You can just say we're for the birds,” Laurel Stoner said.

Among all the bird feeders at their former home in Pottsville in eastern Pennsylvania, the Stoners had a specific area set aside for hummingbirds.

“We'd like to be able to put little dots on them so we know which ones are which,” Laurel Stoner said.

Instead, they tell the hummingbirds apart by behavior, body size and shape, color and markings and give them names like Big Dipper, the Dunker and Skittish.

ey seemed to do well with that,” Adams said.