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["Palmer-Ball, Brainard (EPPC OOS KNPC)" <Brainard.Palmer-Ball@xxxxxx>]

This is nothing new at all to folks who band Ruby-throated Hummingbirds
regularly in the late summer, but yesterday afternoon from about 2:30 to
7:30 p.m., Mark Monroe and I banded 65 hummers in his yard near
Middletown; we only stopped there because the day was waning and we ran
out of bands. 
 
Mark has a nice array of feeders along the side of his house and he's
had 15-25 birds at a time for nearly two weeks. We finally got around to
banding yesterday. There was an excellent mix of ages (both young and
adults) and both males and females. Sometimes when you band you find
that a majority are one age/sex, young males, for example. The number of
birds that come and go is really staggering this time of year! We only
caught 3 birds a second time and all of them were later in the day and
were all were among the first we caught and banded.
 
bpb, Frankfort