Hmm. I had just been wondering whether I should still be bothering with hummingbird feeders. I guess I will keep bothering a little while longer and try to get good looks at any bird who visits them!
Melanie On 10/1/2015 1:11 PM, Jay McGowan wrote: > Hi all, > As Marty suggested,any "hummer" this late in the season is worthy of > scrutiny. Over the next few months, vagrant species, most often Rufous > Hummingbird, are almost as likely as lingering Ruby-throated. Please > keep that in mind if you have any hummingbird sightings from now on, > and post to the list if you have anything suspicious! Immature and > female Rufous are not as dramatically different from female > Ruby-throated as you might expect, so take a good look at the tail > pattern and color of the sides on any late-season birds. > > Jay > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:03 PM, John Confer <con...@ithaca.edu > <mailto:con...@ithaca.edu>> wrote: > > I, too, had a hummer this morning, after a long time with no > sighting. Oddly, it flew with very direct line from plants with > flowers in the front lawn to flowers that were out of line of > sight in the backyard making me wonder if it was the return of a > summer resident. Don't know. Interesting. > > John Confer > > > On 10/1/2015 8:27 AM, Marty Schlabach wrote: >> >> I just saw two hummingbirds at our feeder in Interlaken. We >> haven’t seen a hummer at our feeders since Sept 13. These both >> look like female or young male ruby throated hummingbirds to me, >> but then I’ve been wrong before! 3 years ago we had a rufous >> hummingbird visit us for several weeks. I’ve got some poor >> pictures, which I might post to Cayuga Bird Club facebook page. >> Perhaps the weather brought in a couple of late migrants. >> >> Marty >> >> =========================================== >> >> Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edu <mailto:m...@cornell.edu> >> >> 8407 Powell Rd. home 607-532-3467 >> <tel:607-532-3467> >> >> Interlaken, NY 14847 cell 315-521-4315 >> <tel:315-521-4315> >> >> =========================================== >> >> -- >> *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* >> Welcome and Basics >> <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> >> Rules and Information >> <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> >> <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> >> *Archives:* >> The Mail Archive >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> >> Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> >> BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> >> *Please submit your observations to eBird >> <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* >> -- > > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > > > > > -- > Jay McGowan > Macaulay Library > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > jw...@cornell.edu <mailto:jw...@cornell.edu> > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- -- 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/ --
