The RUHU was seen today by Winifred Smith and I on Dec. 3, '03 at about 4: p.m. The owners have installed a heat lamp to keep the feeder from freezing. The bird was on the feeder for about 40 seconds. We had waited a little over 20 min. before it appeared.
DIRECTIONS: from Hwy 401 @ km. 623 go south on Hwy 15 to the T-junction at Hwy 2 and then east on #2 Hwy to King Pitt Rd., then south on King Pitt Rd. to #24 at the end of the Road. CONDITIONS: The owners are birder-friendly. They request that visiting birders not block the streets or driveways. Please visit in small groups, 5 or 6 persons at a time are welcome to watch the hummingbird feeder on the south side of the house from a distance of 20 ft. A good vantage point is the row of rocks at about that distance south of the feeder. Excelent photos of the RUHU by Phil Yendt of Kingston and Carol Horner of Toronto are on the Ontario Field Ornithologists web site: http://www.ofo.ca/photos/ Bob Sachs, Kingston, Ont. "Bob Sachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
