The Rufous Hummingbird continues at the Beverly Smith Butterfly garden at Lenoir Nature Preserve in Yonkers, Westchester County. It now has been present each day since last Sunday. It may stick around for a while. Here are the first and last dates for the last three Rufous Hummingbirds to visit Lenoir.
Immature male Rufous, Lenoir Nature Preserve November 17, 2001 to January 6, 2002 Immature female Rufous, Lenoir Nature Preserve October 28, 2002 to November 29, 2002 Immature female Rufous, Lenoir Nature Preserve November 23, 2006 to January 6, 2007 If you’d like to see more information of Westchester County’s rarer records. For instance, today’s Brown Pelican in Rye would be Westchester’s 2nd accepted record. The first record were two birds at Croton Point Park on July 30, 1992. An annotated list for Westchester’s rarer birds can be found on Hudson River Audubon’s web site as a pdf file at http://www.hras.org/pdffiles/annotated.pdf Michael Bochnik -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
