Female hummer back in Brownsville, one week after the male.

Marcia

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On May 16, 2013, at 8:53 AM, UVM <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
>>>