Awesome news! Thanks for sharing Noah, and for providing access, and to David for resolving the mystery!
On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 3:15:10 PM UTC-5, Noah Kahn wrote:
> Update on the Selasphorus being seen at 9500 Thornhill RD, Silver Spring. �It was banded this morning and found to be a young female Rufous hummingbird. �I hosted a different young female Rufous almost exactly two years ago. �The bander, David Holmes, tells me she has no fat on her and so is likely to stick around for awhile. �You are welcome to visit.
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> Side note: at Seneca Creek State Park last weekend, we had 2 red-breasted nuthatch in pines and 1 Merlin over the lake. �
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> "There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot...like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a
> pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech."
> Aldo Leopold
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