After working half a day & having lunch, I went home & sat on a rocker under our covered deck to relax & survey the scene. I saw a female ruby-throated hummingbird checking out some red hot poker lillies in our shrub island. From there it moved to the tip of a nearby 12'h Norway spruce, & started bobbing & weaving. With my 10x binos, I saw the hummer dip down to a spiders web at the top of the spruce, open it's beak, snip a strand, then back out. It performed this routine at least a half a dozen times! The hummers bill literally looked like scissors opening & closing to strategically cut individual strands. I checked our Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds. Sure enough under Ruby-throated hummingbird it states, "... hovers at spiders webs and with bill picks out entangled insects". =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA -------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan Clarksville, TN __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________