The Rufous Hummingbird continues to visit as do birders. I'm aware of birders stopping by every day except perhaps one, since the ID was confirmed on 10/17, including two parties yesterday and one today so far, in spite of the rain.
We've added a feeder on the south side of the house, which will be warmer when the sun shines, and we can sit at the table watching it! Hardware store owner thought we were a bit crazy buying a hummingbird feeder this time of the year. The hummer had seemed to frequent shrubs on that side of the house as well, which is another reason we added a feeder. Yesterday the hummer seemed to be flycatching. It would perch in the shrub and it would fly up in the air a short distance and then back to the shrub to perch. As I write, it is doing the same thing from its perch on the clothesline and then occasionally returning to the feeder. It was also observed flying up to the window, I'm assuming it's looking for insects. I also saw it sipping from drops of water on the feeder. Marty ====================================== Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edu 8407 Powell Rd. home 607-532-3467 Interlaken, NY 14847 cell 315-521-4315 ====================================== -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
