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Re: NC hummer update
SUSAN . . .
Best of luck on your hummingbird banding project. I'll certainly be
on the lookout for your "white-headed birds" as they move through in
migration.
I'm up to 78 new ruby-throats and 34 returns this year at Hilton
Pond; they all have new green "necklaces." I also banded seven birds
this weekend at Allison Woods in Statesville (all adults!); they're
now color-marked with blue on the throat and upper breast.
Please keep us informed about your successes.
Cheers,
BILL
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>Hello All-
>
>I just wanted to let you all know that I have received permission to color
>mark Ruby-throated Hummingbirds that I band here in NC. I am using a dot
>of (non-toxic) white paint on their foreheads. If anybody sees one of
>these birds, please let me know. A few dispersed into my neighborhood here
>in Whispering Pines and have been reported back to me already.
>
>I am up to 45 banded Ruby-throateds so far this summer (mostly from my
>yard). And my intensive efforts will begin in earnest this week. And I
>have yet to recapture a banded individual!
>
>NOTE: Keep your eyes out for returning Rufous hummers-- it is that time of
>the year already. Please contact me if you see one. Hmmm..it should not
>be too long before 'Blondie' could return to Hampstead (8/26 was the date
>last year) ...
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Susan M. Campbell
>Whispering Pines, NC
>
>ncaves@utinet.net
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P.S. I'll be banding hummingbirds during public presentations the
first three weekends in August at Allison Woods (Statesville),
Stacy's Greenhouses (York), and RibbonWalk (Charlotte). Details are
on the websites (addresses below).
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BILL HILTON JR., "The Piedmont Naturalist"
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road
York, South Carolina 29745
USA
e-mail: <hilton@hiltonpond.org>
Voice: (803) 684-5852
eFax: (503) 218-0845
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History is a 501(c)(3)
non-profit research and education organization, so all in-kind or
monetary gifts to Operation RubyThroat and the Center are
tax-deductible. Please visit our websites:
Hilton Pond: <http://www.hiltonpond.org>
Operation RubyThroat: <http://www.rubythroat.org>
"Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to
watch the sunset."
BHjr.
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