Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:04:18 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Re: avian migration and those pesky hummers In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 12/10/03 3:56 PM, David Mozurkewich at mozurk@BELLATLANTIC.NET wrote: > The result is a > distribution of strays that decreases the further you get from the > main wintering grounds. This is indeed what is seen for some species, > I don't know enough about the wintering range of Rufous Hummers to say > if this is the case here. I don't recall whether this has been posted here before, but the following web site has an abundance of range maps for wintering hummingbirds that give a very good picture of what we are, in part, seeing here in Maryland. Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================