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Birds in odd places

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Sonnie Sussillo

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Sonnie Sussillo

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Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:14:33 -0400

Neither of these sitings were in MD, but seemed interesting and odd to me; 
thought I'd mention them just for fun.
This weekend, we took the Amtrak to NYC. Where the train crosses the 
Susquehanna river, there are old bridge supports just downriver -- you can 
look down on the tops, which support grass and trees but must be way over 
50 feet above the water.  Both going and coming back, I saw black-crowned 
night herons perched on the supports (1 bird on the way up, 3 on the way 
home).  Were they hunting? Roosting?  Thought it interesting to see them so 
high above the water.
And, we were in Silver City, NM the last week of July -- Silver City is in the 
south-west corner of the state at elevation of 6,000 feet.  There were 
several hummers buzzing the patio of our friend's home and I swear that 2 of 
them were rufus hummers; there's nothing else in Sibleys so orange.  Yet 
Sibleys shows them as migrants that summer way up at the Canadian border.  
They were only there 2 days, then didn't show up again.  Early southerly 
migrants?  Signs that we're due for an early winter? Hmmm.