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Re: hummer caught in spider web and gets away



I've had several female hummers with the same bunching of spiderweb
around the leg, and I attributed it to the fact that they actually use
web in their nest building.

Travis, Ginger wrote:
...

> Spiderweb must be very durable. Earlier this summer I had a hummingbird
> coming to the feeders with something odd about one foot. At first I thought
> it had a broken leg that just dangled. But when I got a close enough look I
> saw that it had some kind of a slender, pod-shaped object, say one-quarter
> to one-third of an inch long, hanging from its leg. The object appeared to
> be held on by spider web. I assume that the bird flew through a web and
> exited with a tangle around its leg. The hummer flew OK, but it didn't perch
> at my feeder the way the other birds did. I saw the hummer and its burden
> for several weeks and began to worry in August that the bird would be
> hindered in migration by this thing that just would not drop off its leg. I
> believe the bird was an adult female, and she's long gone now, on her way
> south -- with baggage.
> Ginger_Travis@unc.edu
> Chapel Hill, NC

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