Just got back from Denver. My youngest son lives there and is a huge birder. In 2 days we saw 77 different species. I had gray jays eating potato chips out of my hand on Webster Pass.
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He goes to a barrier island near Brownsville in the spring to watch the migration of mainly warblers. He told me that after flying over the Gulf they literally collapse on the beach. Wonder how many end up in a sharks belly.
I've seen a hummingbird moth, looks and sounds like a hummer.
Birding is not just for wusses anymore.
Yes. I'm also in a 'flyway' here. We have thousands come anually for bird watching. There is an Audubon park out on Daulphin Island (just down the road from me) and they call that bird collapse a 'fallout'. The birds are so exausted that when they see land, they just quit flying and fall out of the sky. I saw this when I was in submarines, we would surface and a flock of birds lost at sea would fall all over the boat. It was kind of heart breaking.