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Study: Hummingbirds migrating earlier in spring
Associated Press ^
| Feb 17, 2013 2:10 PM EST
| Bruce Smith
Posted on 02/17/2013 11:32:55 AM PST by Olog-hai
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posted on
02/17/2013 11:33:04 AM PST
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Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
I think this whole thing is for the birds...
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posted on
02/17/2013 11:34:59 AM PST
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: Olog-hai
I’ve noticed it but it depends on the season that year. It’s not consistent.
To: Olog-hai
I live just north of Charleston, SC. I usually see them in late March-early April. I fill my feeders early so that I know that they have arrived.
They are fun to watch around the feeders. They use their beaks as fencing swords if they don’t feel like sharing the nectar from a particular feeder. They will feed and then fly to a high branch in a tree, wait for another one to come along then fly down and defend the feeder. A window feeder is essential.
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posted on
02/17/2013 11:49:42 AM PST
by
submarinerswife
(Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
To: Olog-hai
This is essentially anecdotal evidence. My bet is that there are lot more people logging observations than there were in the past, yet the old observations and the new observations are weighted the same.
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posted on
02/17/2013 11:51:29 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
My bet is that there are lot more people logging observations than there were in the past, yet the old observations and the new observations are weighted the same.Absolutely correct!
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posted on
02/17/2013 11:56:20 AM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Olog-hai
If the birds fly away from where it is too warm, fly past where it is just right, and end up where it is too cold to survive, then they deserve the Darwin award they are going to get.
Or maybe it is the scientists who deserve the dunce cap for speculating from too little information. The birds are adapting to variation in the pattern of seasons. Likely some always overshoot to try to be the first to grab the best spots for the summer.
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posted on
02/17/2013 12:13:58 PM PST
by
slowhandluke
(It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
To: Olog-hai
Tempertures don’t have a dang thing to do with it. Hummingbirds are just like everyone else. They have to cut their vacations short due to running out of money. It’s the economy.
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posted on
02/17/2013 12:14:03 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Stop the world and let me off. The whole planet has gone insane.)
To: Olog-hai
The Ruby Throated Hummingbird is common in my yard...
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posted on
02/17/2013 12:21:47 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
Mine too. It’s sometimes amusing to see them fight over a feeder.
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posted on
02/17/2013 12:23:48 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: gorush
What beautiful pics. Did you take them?
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posted on
02/17/2013 12:33:22 PM PST
by
murrie
(For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son.......)
To: gorush
Beautiful pictures!! I live in SE Texas so will be putting out my feeders at the end of March, I think.
To: submarinerswife
Sometimes we have so many it looks like a swarm of bees- at lease 50+ at a time. I have three feeders and make my own hummingbird foodt - 4 parts of water to one part of sugar, bring to a boil for a couple of minutes and let cool. I go through about 5 lbs of sugar a week in late spring and taper down starting in September through the middle of October.
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
02/17/2013 12:39:41 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Olog-hai
Researchers say the early arrival could mean less food at nesting time for the tiny birds that feed on insect pests...Yeah...cuz it doesn't get any warmer for the bugs. Asshats. We have species that winter over(Oregon Coast) and do just fine on insects in the winter. The hummers are starting to pick through the spider webs on the windows...nesting materials, and guess what...spiders and their prey.
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posted on
02/17/2013 12:40:56 PM PST
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: Olog-hai
I have observed and recorded the arrival and departure dates of hummingbirds in my yard for the past 13 years.
It's always almost to the day the same; April 22 in the Spring; leave Sept 22 in the fall.
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posted on
02/17/2013 12:43:19 PM PST
by
RedMDer
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To: murrie; BlueAngel
Thanks. I took them a couple of years ago while going through my bird photo stage. Here are a few more that I am proud of (some for the photos, some for the rarity of the bird)for your enjoyment:
Rose-breasted Grosbeak female
Nuthatch
Goldfinch
Downy Woodpecker
Indigo Bunting
Barred Owl
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posted on
02/17/2013 1:10:20 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
Love the pics, we have many eagles and hawks around but they do not want to pose for a pic.
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posted on
02/17/2013 1:18:51 PM PST
by
Big Horn
(Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
To: Red Boots
Makes sense. Actual research, not this kind of uncontrolled garbage, has shown that birds a) migrate according to the length of daylight, not passing weather, and b) seem to have a wired in annual periodicity which causes agitation and orientation toward the usual direction of migration at certain time frames in the year, even in caged birds in controlled environments.
The supposition that "climate change" drives alterations in these instinctive patterns makes no scientific sense. Political sense yes--students of bird behavior need grant money too you know. Might as well get on the bandwagon.
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