Hi all,

More and more reports are appearing across the eastern US of Rufous
Hummingbirds and other species. So far, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania
Virginia, South Carolina, and more have reported these orange gems. Of
greater interest, TWO ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRDS at one feeder (!!!) have been
reported in the upper peninsula of Michigan in the past couple days.

I've been reading into previous years' data, and it seems the past two years
have been less productive than others. Don Gorney writes on the Indiana
Birding listserv: "Indiana has 62 records of Rufous, one of Black-chinned,
one Green Violet-Ear, and one Anna's. So, anything is possible. Most of the
rarity records come in the last several years since I began tracking late
hummingbird reports. However, Rufous records in the last few years have been
scant with just one report each in 2008 and 2009."

Remember, even no data is good data! It still helps in contributing to our
knowledge of vagrant hummingbird patterns and their "irruptions."

Leave your feeders, and look out the windows! If you haven't already, add
your feeder location to this Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/27qs4k7

Or email me with a location so I can add it.


Good hummingbirding,

Sean

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Sean Williams, '11
Undergraduate of Ornithology of Dr. Jed Burtt
Ohio Wesleyan University
HWCC 724
Delaware, OH 43015
617-470-4094

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