[tn-bird] Re: Mantis tries for hummer?
- From: "Todd, Michael C." <michael.c.todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 23:46:03 -0400
I've never seen this myself, but I ran across a picture on the net not long
ago of a large mantis that had captured, and was in the process of eating a
hummer (can't remember what species). The photographer happened upon the
scene shortly after the capture, but the damage to the hummer was already
fatal. Nature works in mysterious and amazing ways.
Good birding,
Mike Todd
McKenzie, TN
Carroll Co
mikectodd@xxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: Anna Varney [mailto:arvarney@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 5:48 PM
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tn-bird] Mantis tries for hummer?
As of Monday I still have at least one Ruby-throated visiting feeders.
A few days ago, while standing in the back yard close to the hummer feeder I
saw that the hummer was getting a bit agitated at something on the tree that
the feeder is attached to. But what? Looking closer I saw a Preying Mantis
gripping the tree truck within inches of the feeder... and the hummingbird.
O.k., so I stepped in and relocated the mantis to a tomato plant. The
hummer went on feeding like nothing happened. Things might have turned out
different. While staying at Nancy Moore's B&B during Labor Day weekend this
year, we saw what a Preying Mantis can do! Pull in a Hummingbird Moth!
Nancy intervened on behalf of the moth that evening (= First time I had
ever seen anything like it.
Sunday birds. Not much happening. Red-bellied Woodpeckers quite VOCAL
today-all day long. Had a thrush. Wasn't a Veery, Wood nor Hermit Thrush.
I got a good look at the tail. It was the same gray-brown color as the
wings and back and the spotting on the breast couldn't have been of a Wood
Thrush. The lighting was good at times then poor as the bird moved from
sunlight to shade on the forest floor. I'm leaning toward a Swainson's
Thrush; the eye ring was strong and the flanks were grayish.
Second hand observation of a lizard (the husband saw it): kinda light
puple-ish with a brown tail (?) By the time I was told about it it was
gone.
Anna Varney
Summertown, TN
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