The probable RH in Fairborn is still here.   Anyone know if all the
others are still around?  Allen Chartier sort of alluded in an email
that it could stick around till the New Year when I had assumed it would
leave long before.
Then I read in a bird magazine that a Mr. Zimmerman(?) at BSBO said
something to the affect we hope it overwinters here.   That sort of
surprised me as even a remote possibility.  I realize that insects do
come out when its say 40F but we are entering a period of sustained mid
30s or lower as a high with little insect activity. Last winter there
was a period of 3 weeks when it never got above 32F.  Hummers use sugar
water as an energy source to get the protein containing insects that
support life so....this just doesn't seem like a good scenario to me.
Of course finding any nectar bearing plants between here and the first
half of the trip to Mexico doesn't sound promising either.   Any idea of
if or when they leave?

Marie, Fairborn

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