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College Park Rufous Hummingbird -- cautious NO

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Rick Borchelt

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Rick Borchelt

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Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:33:13 -0500

Anyone planning on going out of your way to see the Rufous Hummingbird
here in College Park may want to await a later posting to make the
trip.  She has not been seen at the feeders or heard in the
neighboring yards this morning -- which those of you who've seen her
know is very unusual behavior.  She's usually at the heated/lighted
feeder before dawn, and then right on the feeders that had been
brought in to keep them from freezing overnight as soon as I hang them
(7:15 a.m. today).  And chittering constantly.

Her departure would not be at all surprising about now, as the
lengthening daylight would have indicated perhaps that her cohort in
northern Mexico was beginning to move northwards to the western
Sierras for their slow push up to the Northwest and Canadian Rockies.

I will post again tonight if there have been any sightings.   Elda,
you may have been the last successful visitor!

-- 
Rick Borchelt
Special Assistant for Public Affairs
Office of the Director
National Cancer Institute/NIH

preferred personal email:  rickb |AT| nasw |DOT| org