[TN-Bird] Late Hummer...N. Knox Co.
- From: "John Skaggs" <skagerak7@xxxxxxx>
- To: "Birdlist" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:55:53 -0400
I was sitting on my deck this Halloween evening listening to All Things
Considered, about 4:40 PM, when a hummingbird dropped in and checked out some
fall flowers my wife had in a window box. Skies were clear and temp was about
65. The flowers were not to its liking, and it then moved to a limb of a maple
about 25 yards away. It stayed there only a few seconds, then it was gone. My
deck faces east, so this whole sequence was in shadows and that being the case,
I couldn't discern sex or specie.
I feed hummers throughout the season and my last boarder, a female RT hummer
was last seen the morning of 10/10. A week later, I took down my feeders.
Would this late hummer have been a straggling migrant, or could it have been a
wayward exotic? I know that exotic hummers have been known to overwinter in our
area in the past, staying with folks who carefully tended to their
needs...............your thoughts?
John Skaggs
Powell
North Knox Co. TN
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