I had one in my garden yesterday, visiting my monarda. Haven't seen one since late spring when I saw what I call a "wild one" in the woods at the end of Muriel Street. I give you huge kudos for maintaining your feeder all this time with no apparent rewards!! Glad you got a brief reward.
Linda Orkin On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:21 PM, W. Larry Hymes <w...@cornell.edu> wrote: > As we were talking with our son Chris in our living room on Tuesday, he > exclaimed excitedly, "A hummingbird just came to your feeder!!" It moved > out of sight, but soon returned. We had not seen one at our feeders since > May 11!!!!!!!! > I've written about this phenomenon before. To paraphrase the "Field of > Dreams" movie, when he's here, the birds will come!!!!! This is probably > purely a matter of coincidence. HOWEVER, it has happened enough times > before to make me suspect that perhaps other "forces" may be at play. > > Have others of you been seeing hummingbirds of late? If not, maybe I > could send our son to your house! > > Larry > > > -- > > ================================ > W. Larry Hymes > 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 > (H) 607-277-0759, w...@cornell.edu > ================================ > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- "For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and the light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy" Plutarch If you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? -Stanley Kunitz... -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
