Susie & I spent a couple hours this morning sitting in lawn chairs in the middle of one of the fields atop Mt. Pleasant. We thought we would get a head start on hawk migration, but with a strong southerly breeze we expected to see little, which is pretty much what occurred. At 1100, however, a HUMMINGBIRD passed directly over, about 50' up, and zinging along into the teeth of the wind. Neither of us can recall seeing a hummingbird in direct migration flight before. Ludicrous as it may sound, I was strongly drawn to this activity and was tempted to hop out of the chair and begin running pell-mell across the fields and beyond, grabbing fast food at intervals until I reached the Gulf, then plunging in and flailing south to Venezuela.
S. & S. Fast Brooktondale _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nancy W Dickinson Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 4:41 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] no hummingbirds I see Laura has a hummingbird on her list, but mine seem to be, very suddenly, gone. All summer there was one at the feeder, or perched on a twig next to it waiting. Sometimes there were arguments when two tried to visit at once. But yesterday and today, the feeder and twig are empty. (And I always wondered how many of them there actually were.) Nancy Dickinson Mecklenburg -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> The Mail Archive <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> Surfbirds <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> BirdingOnThe.Net 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/[email protected]/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/ --
