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I have a couple of questions regarding our resident Ruby-Throated HB's = (male and female) that I am hoping someone could educate my wife and me = on regarding a several issues? 1) Last night, my wife and I were eating dinner and watching the male = HB. Anyway, we just noticed a bright red patch under its throat. I have = taken quite a few close-up images and have not seen this before. Is the = probably another male, or is it a change in the one that has been = hanging around the most? 2) The last week or so it seems that the male has shifted to coming to = the feeder frequently, but not necessarily to drink. It flys around, and = darts back and forth. It seems like it is patroling? Is this territorial = behavior? We do have a female that shows up occaisionally and he does = tend to chase her off. But, she does come back when he is not around. = Also, there is another male that does come around but is quickly chased = by our resident one. However, the one getting chased off seems rather = persistent and keeps coming back. 3) I was at Wild Birds Unlimited last Sunday to give a talk on Digital = Photography. I happened to talk with a customer of the store who was = telling me that she had quite a few HB's at her feeder at one time (I = thought she said 10, but don't quote me on that). I was surprised based = on what happens at out feeder and from a talk we had heard from a HB = expert at the Quarry Hill Nature Center around February or March of this = year.=20 I would be interested in some inputs on the above. Thank you in advance. Ron Green http://www.greensphotoimages.com/gallery ------=_NextPart_000_00F1_01C59FF2.64C41040 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1476" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have a couple of questions regarding = our resident=20 Ruby-Throated HB's (male and female) that I am hoping someone = could=20 educate my wife and me on regarding a several issues?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>1) Last night, my wife and I were = eating=20 dinner and watching the male HB. Anyway, we just noticed a bright = red patch=20 under its throat. I have taken quite a few close-up images = and have=20 not seen this before. Is the probably another male, or is it a change in = the one=20 that has been hanging around the most?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>2) The last week or so it seems that = the male has=20 shifted to coming to the feeder frequently, but not necessarily to = drink. It=20 flys around, and darts back and forth. It seems like it = is patroling?=20 Is this territorial behavior? We do have a female that shows up = occaisionally=20 and he does tend to chase her off. But, she does come back when he = is not=20 around. Also, there is another male that does come around but is quickly = chased=20 by our resident one. However, the one getting chased off seems rather = persistent=20 and keeps coming back.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>3) I was at Wild Birds Unlimited last = Sunday to=20 give a talk on Digital Photography. I happened to talk with a customer = of the=20 store who was telling me that she had quite a few HB's at her feeder at = one time=20 (I thought she said 10, but don't quote me on that). I was surprised = based on=20 what happens at out feeder and from a talk we had heard from a HB expert = at the=20 Quarry Hill Nature Center around February or March of this year. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I would be interested in some inputs on = the above.=20 Thank you in advance.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Ron Green<BR><A=20 href=3D"http://www.greensphotoimages.com/gallery">http://www.greensphotoi= mages.com/gallery</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00F1_01C59FF2.64C41040--