FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Re: Tennessee Humming-warbler

[Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dev,

Good observation.  And it certainly fits the criteria of birds
related to "Tennessee"  :-)

I've not seen that, but for the last month Tracey and Allan and I
have been watching Carolina Chickadees feeding from one hummer
feeder.  But ONLY one of the 3 we still have put up.  

It never seems to fail to catch Allan's attention when he's sitting
on the couch.

Charlie


--- Dev Joslin <devjoslin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yesterday I watched a Tennessee Warbler meticulously going from
> flower to 
> flower in a tree by our house here in Costa Rica (locals call it a
> guititi 
> tree).  The bird was clearly getting nectar from the flowers and
> almost 
> humorously (to me), it was doing it alongside a hummingbird.
> 
> I had never seen or known that Tennessee Warblers got nectar from
> flowers.  
> (Has anyone ever seen one at a hummingbird feeder?).  I have never
> observed 
> it during spring or fall migration.
> 
> However, Alexander Skutch and Gary Stiles (in a Guide to the Birds
> of Costa 
> Rica) describe the Tenn. Warbler as one who ?visits flowers of many
> sorts 
> for nectar (sometimes individuals defend flowers for short
> periods).?  Out 
> of 52 other warblers described in Skutch and Stiles, 5 are noted to
> feed on 
> nectar (Orange-crowned, Nashville, Cape May, Black-throated Blue, 
> Bay-breasted).
> 
> Has anyone else observed this behavior in any of these warbler
> species or am 
> I just out of it?  Does anyone know if this behavior is primarily
> limited to 
> wintering in the tropics?  Don?t know why it should be, but I
> haven?t 
> observed any of these species on their breeding grounds.
> 
> Dev Joslin
> Monteverde, Costa Rica
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