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Re: Ripley Garden hummingbird, (12/16)

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Patricia Valdata

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Maryland Birds & Birding

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Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:50:39 -0500

Is it a good thing to have a hummingbird feeder up in the winter?
How can those tiny birds possibly survive the the coming months in
the Maryland area? We routinely have temperatures in the 20s,
as they were this morning. That can't be easy on their metabolisms.

--Pat


Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato