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dwindling hummers



Dear All,

Yes, it has become awfully quiet around here hummer-wise too.  There is lots
blooming in the yard (Texas sage, Pineapple sage, Mexican bush sage, Salvia
splendens van Houtii, Miss Huff lantana to name the most floriferous) and
that is most likely what is drawing two or three tiny travelers in each day.
Feeder activity is very slow though.  Most of the time the hummers are
bugging high in our tall old Southern Red Oaks.  But it will be just a
matter of a few more days before the last of them heads south.

No sign of the Rufous that was here last winter--yet.  I received word this
weekend from Sue Rehnberg in Shelby that her old female Rufous returned this
week for what will no doubt be her fifth consecutive winter.  And another
female Rufous that I banded as a juvenile last winter in Lewisville
reappeared this week.  I am now beginning to wonder just what the winter of
2003-2004 will bring...

Susan Campbell
Whispering Pines, NC