[wisb] Re: Ruby-throated Hummer - Pickett
- From: Chris West <little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx>
- To: "elaineseverin@xxxxxxxxx" <elaineseverin@xxxxxxxxx>, "[Wisb]" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:24:38 -0500
I should probably use this as a quick reminder to everyone to leave your
hummingbird feeders up and full!
Oct 15 is the WSO's "cutoff" late date for Ruby-throated Hummingbird (that is,
any Ruby-throat after today is considered a late straggler).
That means that any hummingbird at your feeders from now til spring should be
carefully scrutinized to be certain which species it is as the likelihood of
vagrant hummers goes up the closer we get to winter.
Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland CountyTour leader Swallowtail Birding Tours
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"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first
material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the
composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no
more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be
again."
(From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)
> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:31:13 -0700
> From: elaineseverin@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [wisb] Re: Ruby-throated Hummer - Pickett
> To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Cynthia - I just got out my Sibley guide to compare the juvenile females.
> It was late afternoon and the light was soft on the feeder hanging under the
> porch roof. I'm not sure - so thanks for asking! I'll take some photos - if
> I'm lucky enough to see her again.
> Elaine
>
>
> On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:59 PM, Swanson <elaineseverin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Late afternoon, I returned home from working in my prairie of thistles -
> feeling tired and grumpy. As I entered the house, I looked through the front
> window and was amazed to see a little hummer at my feeder. It had been 3
> weeks since my 2 remaining feeders had any visitors. I quickly mixed up a
> fresh sugar solution - and dashed out to get my new feeder w/the higher perch
> already stored for the season. The little bird appeared several more times
> for quick sips. I imagined she was also visiting the petunias and asters for
> real nectar. Sun was setting by the time I hung the new feeder where the old
> one had been. Back she came, drinking from each port, now resting on the new
> perch. Sugar water was still slightly warm - just what a nightcap should be.
> I imagined how the simple act of mixing up a bit of sugar water might
> somehow affect a tiny life force fluttering against all odds crossing
> hundreds of miles over the Gulf of Mexico
> to a warmer space in Central America. Will she be outside my window in the
> morning? For now, I'm doing cartwheels inside - grumpiness gone.
>
> Elaine Swanson
> FDL County
> rural Pickett
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