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[Haji Warf <hajiwarf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lori,

You're lucky -- I have yet to see my first RTHU! It's
driving me (and everyone who hears me complain)
absolutely bonkers. I have over a dozen feeders and
so, so many different hummer plants -- what IS it
about Arlington? It seems we're always last in
sighting them.

I'ver heard a white-throated sparrow now for two
weeks, but haven't seen him.

I don't get nearly the variety of yard birds here
inside the beltway, just the usual suspects.

Haji Warf
Arlington, VA

--- canyon.eagle@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Greeting VAbirders!
> 
> Being out of town the last 2 weeks in April, I knew
> I'd miss seeing our 
> first hummer (with one exception, always male) of
> the season.  Our FOD for 
> Ruby-throats is always between 4/22-4/30.  I tried
> to convince myself that 
> missing the big arrival wouldn't bother me,
> especially since I'd be seeing 
> plenty of hums on the road to keep me happy, though
> most of them would be 
> Black-chinneds.  My convincing wasn't good enough,
> for since I've been home 
> it's been driving me nuts not knowing for certain
> whether we'd had any hums 
> through here or not.  So, yesterday's (5/3) arrival
> of our first female hum 
> cheered me up right quick!  She has staked out the
> side garden feeders as 
> if she knows the drill.  Welcome back little lady! 
> It always amazes me how 
> such a tiny bird can "fill" the yard.  Talk about
> presence.  :-)
> 
> Before I left in mid-April, our number of
> Goldfinches, down to about 10 
> since late fall, still hadn't picked up, something
> they usually do in 
> April.  Some years, April brings flocks of 300+! 
> The morning after I 
> arrived home I heard lots of Goldfinch song in the
> woods, so put out a few 
> more feeders.  Immediately, more birds filled the
> feeder ports.  I added 
> all the feeders I've got, now up to 7, and almost
> all are being emptied 
> daily.  It's not 300+, but there are 100-150 right
> now.
> 
> Other birds seen this week, including 2 new
> yardbirds!:
> 
> House Wren - the noisy little bully is back!
> Catbird
> Indigo Bunting - a female who fed alongside the
> Goldfinches all day!
> E. Towhee
> Black-throated Green Warbler
> Red-eyed Vireo - 2
> Yellow-rumped Warbler - about 18
> Great-crested Flycatcher!
> Yellow Warbler
> Nashville Warbler - new yardbird!
> Summer Tanager - new yardbird!
> 
> We're still seeing White-throated Sparrow daily.  No
> White-crowned Sparrows 
> that some of you lucky folks are getting as
> yardbirds...don't I wish!
> 
> Big surprise, a Junco was here on May 1!  That's the
> latest we've ever had 
> them in the yard.  They usually clear out by the
> third week of April.
> 
> Massaging my "warbler neck,"
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Lori Markoff
> Vienna
> Fairfax County
> canyon.eagle@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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