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As a person who used to raise hawkmoths in a lab, I can attest that they can be as big, or bigger, than hummers.  But they don't see red at all; we would use a red light to check the colony without disturbing it.  They are much more attracted to white for nectar sources.

Rob Thorn

-----Original Message-----
>From: Allen Chartier <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sep 9, 2007 8:45 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] Possible Hummingbird Movement During the Twilight Hours
>
>Gary,
>
>While nothing is impossible, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are not known to
>migrate at night, nor to be active in the evening or dark. There are some
>pretty big hawk moths out there at that hour, some may even appear bigger
>than a hummer.
>
>Allen Chartier
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>1442 West River Park Drive
>Inkster, MI  48141
>Website: http://www.amazilia.net
>Michigan HummerNet: http://www.amazilia.net/MIHummerNet
>===============================================
>Every day, the hummingbird eats its own weight in food.
>You may wonder how it weighs the food. It doesn't.
>It just eats another hummingbird.
>---Steven Wright
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "gary moon" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 2:29 AM
>Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] Possible Hummingbird Movement During the Twilight
>Hours
>
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>     I was returning home to Columbus from Marysville about 3AM this past
>> Thursday,when refueling my vehicle. I was wearing a solid red t-shirt and
>> jeans,then had a weak tug on my left shoulder that felt like a small bird
>> grasping at my shirt. I looked just in time to see a blurry object flying
>> away.    For birders with more experience w/hummingbirds than myself,
>> could
>> this have been a hummingbird at this hour?
>>
>>
>> Gary Moon
>> Cols.,OH
>>
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