Speaking of hummers, I saw a hummingbird at our feeder on Wednesday morning
and also today. When is it safe to take a feeder down for the winter? 
I'm happy to leave
up our "rest stop" for these little travelers, but I need to take the 
feeder down at some point.

At 11:19 AM 10/7/2006, Jason Waanders wrote:
>Haven't been to Ft. Bayard Park the last two mornings, but spent 
>this morning watching the feeder, which is back up after its summer 
>vacation.  No unusual feeder birds, but a few feet away at the red 
>honeysuckle I had a brief visit from a hummingbird.  I didn't get a 
>great look, but it appeared green-backed and consistent with an 
>immature or female RUBY-THROATED.  That seems by far the most likely 
>thing anyway, though it's getting a little toward the late side. . . .

--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