Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 06:57:42 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Re: SI hummers In-Reply-To: <004101c3be14$3c992a40$1d9e04d8@q4l0z1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I've been thinking about this too--it's one of the reasons I don't like viewing poor vagrants, doomed to die. I know it's all part of nature but I couldn't help but thinking about alternatives. One which came to mind was placing the birds in the National Botanic Garden buildings for the winter. I would think they could survive just fine with feeders and a large space for them to fly about. Arlene Ripley Calvert County, MD (but on the "other" coast at the moment) At 12:21 AM 12/9/03, Ruth Culbertson wrote: >Is there a place the hummingbirds could be housed to keep them safe so >they'd survive the winter? I've just been reading a book called "Rosie, >My Rufous Hummingbird" by Arnette Heidcamp, who kept a stray >hummingbird in a sunroom in her house (in upstate New York) over the >winter and released it in the spring. I'm starting to worry about the >little guys/girls in the Ripley Garden. I'd like them to survive. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================