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hummers abound...ummhmmm
- To: "HUMNET-L" <HUMNET-L@lnxpd06.ocs.lsu.edu>
- Subject: hummers abound...ummhmmm
- From: "gary" <walela@sccoast.net>
- Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 23:17:41 -0400
- Cc: "carolinabirds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
hi y'all,
got home this eve ~7:30 and was awestruck. even before i exited my chariot,
i saw the "Cirque du Colibris" is back in town! absolutely the most hummers
i've ever seen 'round this dive. took me 25 mins to walk 35ft; every shrub,
tree, flower patch and feeder had birds. there were hummers perched from 18"
off the ground in an azalea up to a dead limb in the top of a 50+yr-old
sycamore and "all points in between" (nod to that lil' ol' band from TX.)
complete, total mayhem...even the dweeb House finches were shut-out from the
feeders. a few of 'em were huddled in a pine uttering their querulous
"whees" to one another. twice hummers used me as a shield from their
pursuers, then darted right back into the fray. way, WAY cool!
a third of my hummer plants haven't started to bloom yet. guess i gotta get
s'more feeders...
woohoo!
;-)
gary phillips
conway, sc
sunset zone 31
"...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)