Ruby Throated Hummingbirds Still Here

It has been a while since we last posted.

The fact that we still had two or three hummingbirds at our feeders last Friday was inspiration to write a piece which appeared on Forever Young Information on Sunday September 21st. You can read it here. http://foreveryoungnews.com/posts/2728-bob-s-blog-hummingbirds-take-off-for-another-year

In the course of writing that story I learned a little about Ruby Throated Hummingbirds courtesy of the Ontario Hummingbird Project http://www.ontariohummingbirds.ca/

Friday was also the last day this season and I swore this on a stack of Old Peterson Field Guides that this would be the last time. The last time I'd stir up that one part sugar/four parts water beverage for this season. Sugar is in excess of 3.00 per 2kg bag I've been reminded.

But they were still here so yesterday so I rationalized topping up the three feeders one more time (for sure) yesterday.

Hummingbird at one of our Feeders on September 23rd

Fall Migration is in full swing with banding taking place for early morning to noonish every day at the Old Cut Banding Station at Long Point.   Come down and visit or follow their sightings board at http://www.bsc-eoc.org/longpoint/index.jsp?targetpg=lpbosight