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From: ssb@lanl.gov (Susan S Bunker)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: migrating hummers
Message-ID: <59389@lanl.gov>
Date: 7 Aug 90 14:13:46 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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   Here in Northern New Mexico at an elevation of 7300 feet,
we have two abundant hummingbird species.  The broadtails
arrive around tax time.  I saw my first on April 21st this
year.  The Rufous arrives on the Fourth of July give or
take a few days (last year it was July 2, this year July 3).
Could it be that Greg, in the foothills of the Sierras, is
seeing migration to lower altitude rather than lower
latitude?  Has the weather in the Sierras been unusual this
summer?