That's a very good point, Jane.  Initially I thought that our run of good weather would bring a lot of migrants in sooner, but it seems to have had the opposite effect, if it isn't just a coincidence.

Scott 

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On May 15, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Jane Stein <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Good to know.  I was beginning to worry that my whole crowd had gotten
> into some kind of trouble somehow.  Silly, I know, but still...
> 
> I did wonder at the time whether that gorgeous weather we had for so
> long was maybe a high pressure system or something that had stalled out
> over the region and was making it harder for birds to get in here with
> no tail wind available.  I know it was unusually still that whole time
> where I am.  My place has almost constant strong breeze, often even
> quite windy, and just no air was moving at all for more than a week.
> 
> 
> Jane
> Shoreham
> 
> 
> On 5/15/2013 11:07 PM, UVM wrote:
>> Yes, ours were 5 days late based on a 21 year average.  Another thing
>> - prior to this year, 13 out of the last 16 years I saw my first
>> Chimney Swifts within 24 hrs of our first returning hummer.  Make it
>> 13 out of 17 now, because I saw my first swifts a week ago.  Weird
>> migration this year, so far.
>> 
>> Scott
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On May 15, 2013, at 10:33 PM, Jane Stein <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yours were late too?  I was just about to ask the list about that.
>>> Mine, usually incredibly reliably here by May 9 or 10, still
>>> haven't shown yet.
>>> 
>>> Jane (Shoreham)
>>> 
>>> On 5/15/2013 8:56 PM, UVM wrote:
>>>> At last!  1 RT Hummingbird female yesterday (5/14) and 2 males
>>>> today (5/15) at our feeders in South Burlington.
>>>> 
>>>> Scott Morrical
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>> On May 15, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Liz Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I found an injured oriole in the middle of Dorset st.  In
>>>>> Sheburne this evening.  it is still alert and appears to have a
>>>>> broken wing. Could anyone provide the number of a
>>>>> rehaqbilitator ASAP?  I called the emergency vet and none f the
>>>>> contacts they gave me are current.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Loos if anyone knows how to care for the bird overnight please
>>>>> let me know.  I currently have it in a cloth bag in my trunk!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Liz Lee
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hinesburg
>>