Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:35:36 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Rob (Robert) Hilton" Subject: Re: Hummingbird at the SI (not?) In-Reply-To: <39FDD797.A217EBDE@sivm.si.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thanks Jim for looking today and for the behavioral note. Too bad you saw the bird only on Thursday. Rob Hilton a window in Bethesda robert@csa.com At 03:18 PM 10/30/00 -0500, you wrote: >I looked for the hummingbird today, but did not see it. >The gardener in charge of the Mary Ripley garden told me >she has been seeing it for a couple of weeks, but that >she did not see it today. > Just a single observation apparently supporting ruby- >throat: I did not see it perched, but I did watch it >feeding for some time. It kept its tail still, and >did not flip its tail as described for black-chinned. > Jim > > Jim Felley > Smithsonian Institution > irmss668@sivm.si.edu > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================