The hummingbird is back in my yard this morning. First whizzed past my face at 7:20, but didn't appear at feeders until 7:33.
Updates, photos (including two that Mike Hendrickson took yesterday), discussion, expert opinions, how and when to see it, and other related information is available at <http://www.lauraerickson.com/Birds/NovemberHummingbird.html> Laura Erickson Duluth, MN NOTE address change: [email protected] Producer, "For the Birds" radio program <http://www.lauraerickson.com/> There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. --Rachel Carson

