[texbirds] Re: The Black-chinned Hummingbird is Back!
- From: Bert Wessling <bert200@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "javsterkayak7@xxxxxxxxx" <javsterkayak7@xxxxxxxxx>, texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 23:38:10 -0500
Javi,
First heard and then saw the male doing the pendulum display on Saturday the
15th. I did see a female archilochus later in the same day but do not know if
it stayed.
There was also a very recently fledged Lesser Goldfinch today.
Bert WesslingHidalgo Countyin the woods across the street
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:00:07 -0500
> Subject: [texbirds] The Black-chinned Hummingbird is Back!
> From: javsterkayak7@xxxxxxxxx
> To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Last spring there was an adult male Black-chinned Hummingbird that would
> come visit the flowers from some Aloe vera plants that are in my small
> butterfly garden. It would come zooming in from my
> neighbor's wooded plot of land, sip on the flowers, and then zoom back to
> the woods. It kept coming back until all the aloe flowers were finally gone
> and then the bird moved on. I don't remember the span of time that it was
> here, but somewhere in-between that a female Black-chinned showed up and
> stayed all the way into the summer. I would see her from time to time
> coming to the Turk's Cap flowers in the garden.
> I went out of town this past weekend from (3/13) and I got back home late
> on Sunday night(3/16/14). The next morning I went out back to let the dogs
> out and I saw a male Black-chinned again nectaring on the freshly bloomed
> Aloe flowers and then zooming back to the woods across the street. It's
> been coming back all week! It's great to see that again and I can't
> help but feel that it might be the same one from last spring! Who knows?
>
> Good Spring birding to all,
>
> -Javi Gonzalez
>
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