Forgot to mention that we still have at least one of our Buff-bellied Hummingbirds along with an influx of juvenile and adult Ruby-throats.
Our Flame Acanthuses have started to bloom again, just in time after being deluged with the 20+ inches of rain we had over a three day period last month. They just don't like being over watered. We lost some of out drought tolerant Salvia Greggii. And, will be increasing the amount of sugar water in our feeders in preparation for the big migration influx.
David Griffith -------- Original Message -------- From: - Mon Aug 20 08:38:17 2012 X-Account-Key: account4 X-UIDL: 19472-1214849681 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Return-path: <tdavidg@xxxxxxxxxxx>Received: from [192.168.231.141] ([unknown] [75.214.254.5]) by vms173003.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0M9200JKT367QY30@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> for tdavidg@xxxxxxxxxxx; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:37:20 -0500 (CDT)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:37:17 -0500 From: T. David Griffith <tdavidg@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Rufous Hummingbirds Near Blessing To: TexBirds POST <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Message-id: <50323D8D.1090409@xxxxxxxxxxx> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bitUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0
Original-recipient: rfc822;tdavidg@xxxxxxxxxxx Confirmed sighting of a Rufous Hummingbird on our Flame Acanthus and then a couple of feeders down here 3 miles east of Blessing in western Matagorda County on Sunday, Aug 19. Did hear another one in a Live Oak at the same time. Thought I had heard one in a Hackberry on Friday and Saturday, but this was an eye to eye encounter with the hummer about 15 feet away. David Griffith
