The probable Rufous Selasphorus hummingbird that turned up in my yard first appeared (that I noticed) on November 17 (2004). She stuck around till December 3, when she departed at mid-morning on a day that reached the 20s and had northwest tail winds.
That was the only year I've been able to keep my feeders out so long, but this year I'm able to do it again. Who knows what we miss during the minutes/hours/days that we're not watching our feeder? -- Laura Erickson Duluth, MN For the love, understanding, and protection of birds 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 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
