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Hi David and all, I think it is too early to find these answers, but there are some great Hummingbird sites on the net. Hilton Pond in South Carolina do a lot of research on Hummers: This week's note is on the top ten myths about hummingbirds. http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek080715.html Chris, The site I enjoy in the spring is the arrival map ( just go to http://www.hummingbird.net/map.html and the Canada portion is at the top.) Also fun to check the early arrival and late departure notes in Tufts Birds of Nova Scotia (on the NS Museum website). Here is a quote from VirtualMuseum.ca: "The migratory route of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird is a long one. Although most of the species follow the US-Mexican coast, many others cross the Gulf of Mexico, a route with no landing for 800 to 1000 km. They apparently travel in groups of various sizes, flying over the water at low altitude. They have been observed flying over the Gulf of Mexico just 8 metres above the surface and between the waves on Lake Erie on a windy day. The males are the first to arrive in the spring and fall, followed by the females, then the immature birds, each about a week apart." Cheers, Joan David & Alison Webster wrote: > Speaking of Hummingbirds, is their unusual abundance this summer > limited to NS, areas of unusually high rainfall or throughout their > breeding range ? Was there a higher than normal number of adults, > better survival of young or both ? Perhaps it it too early for this to > have been sorted out. I saw Hummers 4 (3?) times this summer > apparently working upper new growth of a White Ash tree that also had > many small early instar hoppers of some kind at this same time. They > look like highly ornamented walking isosceles pyramids from a Disney > bug movie and had a tendency to fall and land on a white plastic table. > Yt, DW, Kentville > > Margaret E.Millard wrote: > >> they are migrating from here for sure, Chris. I am down to two. >> Marg Millard, White Point, Queens Co., >> http://margmillard.ca >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Callaghan/Andy Moir" >> <chrisandandy@cwswireless.ca> >> To: <NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:48 PM >> Subject: [NatureNS] Hummingbirds on a whale watch >> >> >>> One of the passengers whale-watching on the Bay of Fundy yesterday >>> was wearing a bright red ball cap. We were observing a pair of >>> humpbacks when all of a sudden two hummingbirds zoomed in; one >>> briefly lit on the cap, and then they flew off over the water. We >>> were about three or four miles offshore at the time. A bit later a >>> lone hummingbird also flew over the boat. >>> >>> Are they migrating? And does anyone know if two would ordinarily >>> travel together? >>> >>> They looked really tiny way out there! >>> >>> Chris in Freeport >>> >> >> > > > >
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