[bristol-birds] Interesting report Hungry Mother Park, VA

Bristol Birders:

I am forwarding this interesting exchange between two
Alabama birders (one of them being the famous hummingbird
expert Bob Sargent who spoke at the BBC annual banquet
when we had 167 people join us in Sept. 1997).   This
message is being forwarded from the Alabama Birds List.

Wallace Coffey
Bristol
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-----Original Message-----
From: RubyThroat@xxxxxxx <RubyThroat@xxxxxxx>
To: albirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <albirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, July 21, 2002 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: [ALBIRDS] Banding Report from Mississippi


>In a message dated 7/19/02 9:29:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>Lmcstjohns@xxxxxxx writes:
>
>
>> Subj: Re: [ALBIRDS] Banding Report from Mississippi
>> Date: 7/19/02 9:29:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time
>> From:    Lmcstjohns@xxxxxxx
>> Reply-to: <A
HREF="mailto:albirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>albirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A>
>> To:    albirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Bob,
>>
>> Your recent post reminded me to report the following:
>>
>> Last summer on 9/22/01 while setting up camp in the Hungry Mother State
>> Park
>> near Marion VA, we noticed a familiar silhouette in a nearby hardwood
tree.
>> The little thing flounced every few minutes. Closer inspection revealed a
>> female RTHB caught in a spider web. We had heard such stories and
wondered
>> if
>> they were merely apocryphal. My husband got a stick and lowered the web
>> into
>> my hands. I held her too briefly. My husband pulled the web aside and she
>> was
>> gone. What a thrill to see the little bird up close and feel that we did
>> some
>> good work that day.
>>
>> The spider web threads were thick and very sticky. Wonder how often HBs
get
>> caught like that?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>>
>
>Lenore and Albirders
>More common than one would think!  The main problem is that the female
>hummers not only use the spider webbing in their nest construction, but
they
>also steal the insect pray that is held captive in the spider web.  Both of
>these are risky practices since the the spider webs are strong and sticky.
>Being a winged-thief is not as easy as it looks and is often fatal.  You
guys
>certainly saved the life of the hummer that you found trapped.
>
>Thanks for the note.
>
>Bob Sargent
>Trussville, Alabama
>
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