At my parent's house my father and I have been sighting 3 hummingbirds since the beginning of the springs. An male finally arrived at the beginning of June. I haven't been out in the field this summer as much as of last summer. I am taking summer course work. Last year I was in field everyday conducting surveys on wetland in Cuy. Co. Everyday in the 20 different wetlands I had at least two separate individual visit me at each wetlands I surveyed! I had upclose face to face interaction!! It was cool!! Below are,I hope,some helpful links from Cornell Lab of Ornithology on Ruby-throated Hummingbirds: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/053/articles/introduction http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Ruby- throated_Hummingbird.html See you in the field, Jeremiah W. Roth Conservation Biology Geographer (GIS) Kent State University [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]