Date:         Wed, 3 Dec 2003 10:09:20 -0500
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From:         Steve Huy <Gabboon@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: SI hummers, 12/3
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Birding by flashlight?

Thanks for the reports.  Its interesting to hear how these birds are hanging around.  I certainly hope that birders learn from this.  I am always disturbed by the well meaning, yet potentially harmful, desire by some birders to "save" these birds from the elements. Little is known about wintering hummers, but evidence is showing that they can survive our moderate cold season.

Now that I've jinxed these birds, whoever finds their frozen corpses tomorrow morning should stick them in the freezer for ID by a trained ornitholigist.  Maybe take then to a museum if there is a decent one nearby.

Have they been banded?

<This morning, I saw neither hummer, but I did
see a birder who arrived even earlier than me
(John Howell?).  He said he had seen the
Rufous/Allen's just before I arrived, and
perhaps had seen the Black-chinned even
earlier (I arrived at 6:50).>

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