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another Rufous hummer in the SC coastal plain...
- To: "HUMNET" <HUMNET-L@its1.ocs.lsu.edu>
- Subject: another Rufous hummer in the SC coastal plain...
- From: "Gary Phillips" <walela@sccoast.net>
- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 23:39:21 -0500
- Cc: "carolinabirds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Hi y'all,
This morning, I banded a cocky lil' SY male Rufous Hummingbird in Mt.
Pleasant, SC. This little man found himself a very fine yard to spend the
winter in, y'all hear? Full of nice tall wax myrtles, bunch of thick
azaleas, several oaks of a cpl of species, adjacent to a marsh with more
bugs than the Chinese president's new Boeing, and hosts who provide a magic
feeder that's squeaky-clean and never runs dry. It's like he's living in
Louisiana, y'all....'cept he don't have to fight three-quarters of the
world's Rufous Hummingbird population to get a sip or two of sugar water
whenever he feels the need. He's livin' large.
Hey Stacy! I believe that's yet another county for the fair Palmetto
State.
Now ain't that something, y'all?
Woohoo!
;-)
Gary Phillips
Conway, SC
Zone 8
walela@sccoast.net
"...where is the person, I ask, who, on observing this glittering fragment
of the rainbow, would not pause, admire, and turn his mind with
reverence..." (J. J. Audubon)