My feeder is still up and will be until it is consistantly frozen. It's interesting to go to the MOU website under "Review Reported Birds" and query the sightings database for Ruby-throated Hummingbird over a period of 30 years or so and choose Sort Order "day of year". (Make sure you enter a * really* high number in the "Limit Rows" field, as there are a lot of sightings.) Then, you can easily see date-related trends. You'll see a couple dozen October RTHU records and a few November records. It gets even more interesting if you do the same search for other species of hummingbirds and see that most of these rare vagrants turned up at feeders in very late fall.
Shawn Conrad On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Thomas P. Malone <[email protected]> wrote: > Sue's post raises a question: does anybody still have feeders out? Is > anybody else seeing hummingbirds? I usually take my feeders down on Oct 1 > but since Sue saw a bird I don't want to have a hungry migrating bird not be > able to find food. > > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. > > > Thomas P. Malone > Attorney at Law > Barna Guzy & Steffen > Minneapolis Minnesota > [email protected] > (Via BlackBerry) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Minnesota Birds <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat Oct 01 13:41:56 2011 > Subject: [mou-net] Hummingbird, late Hennepin County > > So much for the old adage that hummers leave the Metro area on September > 25! I have one here right this minute, thoroughly enjoying the fresh nectar > I put out yesterday. Had not seen them since last Sunday so I figured they > all saw the calendar... > Also, a pair of Blackburnian warblers chasing around. > Sue on Melody Lake, Edina > > Sent from my iPad > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
