[va-richmond-general] Re: Godspeed Little Sarge-it's been a great run-SY RUHU Chester VA : 4 Nov 2012-3 April 2013
- From: Robin Ruth <robin.ruth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rcs5701@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:18:19 -0400
I say the same thing as Bob, Julie. I'm wishing all the best for that little
hummer.
Robin
On Apr 4, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Bob wrote:
> Julie
>
> Thank you for sharing. Hopefully your little hummer will return next year
> like ours did in 2002.
>
> Bob Siegfried
>
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> Subject: [va-richmond-general] Godspeed Little Sarge-it's been a great run-SY
> RUHU Chester VA : 4 Nov 2012-3 April 2013
>
>
> The whirrring has stopped, the feeders are quiet and all the yard birds are
> exhaling as Little Sarge has now started his migratory journey to the far NW
> to breed. Walter and I sat for hours yesterday and listened and watched for
> Sarge...nothing. Today, also silent. It is bittersweet for us at right now.
> We have been enchanted with this tiny ball of Moxie for just about 5 months.
> As in the tradition of Martha Gail (MG), Little Sarge arrived in Nov. and was
> soon banded by hummingbird banders from Maryland. Assessment of Little Sarge
> determined he was a HY (hatch year), male, Rufous Hummingbird being born in
> 2012 and ending up in Virginia by a route we will never know.
>
> Sarge (named for Bob Sargent, bird bander extraordinaire in Alabama) marked
> many milestones during his stay. Thanksgiving, Christmas Bird Counts, the New
> year, the Great Backyard Bird Count and many more. He didn't see his shadow
> on Feb. 2 and alas, had no sweetheart for Valentine's Day. He sipped "green"
> nectar for St. Paddy's Day and welcomed the start of spring. He hung on
> during wind storms, hawked insects when the temperatures soared and dodged
> snow flakes with our unexpected VA weather. I spent countless hours
> observing, photographing and being inspired by him.
>
> Thank you to all who have written me and called to cheer on Little Sarge.
> We will be watching for him when "the frost is on the pumpkin and the hay is
> in the barn".
> Attaching a couple images from the day he arrived in Nov. and just before he
> set sail.
>
> JulieKacmarcik
> Chester VA
>
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