FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Re: Rufous Hummingbird Connection - Midlothian VA and Red Lodge, MONTANA

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Hi VAbirders,

Larry, thanks for the update!  As a humfreak who has been following this 
stuff for 5+ years, this is a MAJOR WOW event!  Hooray!  Hooray for 
hums!  Hooray for humbanders!  Keep those humfeeders up year round 
folks!  HOT DOG!!!!!

Lori Markoff
Vienna
Fairfax County
canyon.eagle@xxxxxxxxxxx



>A Rufous Hummingbird banded at Bob Siegfried's house on November 29, 2001
>in Chesterfield County, VA was recaptured on August 1, 2002 near Red
>Lodge, Montana.  Details have arrived from the banders, Ned and Gigi
>Batchelder, by way of Fred Bassett, Bob Sargent and Mary Gustafson. Mary
>banded the Rufous in Midlothian.
>
>This is a great example of how meaningful banding data is gathered and
>reported.  And even when the birds disappear after the banding has taken
>place as this one did, you never know where they will show up next. Wow!
>-- Montana!!!
>
>The banding details:   HY-F Rufous   band # 3000Y42326    left-leg-banded
>
>Also of interest is that the Batchelders have banded about 1300 hummers
>this season.  They are capturing mostly Calloipes (over 900), Rufous
>going south (over 300), Broad-tailed (nest there in small numbers) and
>Black-chinned (so far only spring migrants).
>
>Many thanks to Bob Siegfried and his family for letting us know about the
>Rufous Hummingbird visiting their feeders and allowing it to be caught
>and banded.
>
>Larry Lynch
>Chesterfield County, VA
>birder6@xxxxxxxx


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