Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:17:20 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Maurice Barnhill Subject: Re: Hummingbird Migration Routes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Paul O'Brien wrote: >Sheri Williamson just reminded a few of us to look at Stacy Jon >Peterson's web site that shows Winter Hummers and Tallies at: > >www.trochilids.com/USA/2003rual.html > >It shows the sightings of Rufous Hummingbirds "out of range" this fall >and winter and you can see the birds being swept along from the gulf >states to the southeast and mid-Atlantic states, especially in Oct. and >Nov. The Pacific air masses rake across Mexico and the gulf states and >deposit birds hereabouts. The sheer numbers of them tell me that we are >not dealing with rare deviants. > It's a total of 524 hummers out of the entire population; even allowing for many not being found that is a fairly small percentage. >Migrating Rufous Hummingbirds from the west head into Mexico and >collide with this Pacific air mass and go along for the ride like >drifters on railroad cars (block that metaphor). It's a fascinating >picture. Take a look. > >Paul O'Brien >Rockville, Mont. Co., MD >pobrien776@aol.com > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= > > > -- Maurice Barnhill mvb@udel.edu [Use ReplyTo, not From] [bellatlantic.net is reserved for spam only] Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================