3 winter hummingbirds banded in our yard today--a rare allen's
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:44 PM
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| 3 winter hummingbirds banded in our yard today--a rare allen's |
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hummingbird, a male ruby throat, a juvenal rubythroat and there was one rufous that wouldn't fly into the cage.
Last year we had 5 rufous and a rubythroat banded
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:47 PM
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| 1. Wow, I didn't know they were in the east |
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except for the ruby-throated. Cool. I only see rufous and Allen's when they migrate. Most we have Anna's here.
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:49 PM
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| 2. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards |
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I think.
They are so cool.
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:54 PM
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| 3. Lucky You! Rufous in the Snow |
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An apparent Rufous was at Duluth, MN on Dec. 1 in the snow: it had been there for weeks.
The number of western Hummingbirds in the East and Southeast is apparently a normal occurrence, but who knows.
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