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From: wybranie@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Wybraniec)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: hummers
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Date: 18 Apr 91 19:45:58 GMT
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In article <20553@brahms.udel.edu> jms@brahms.udel.edu (John Milbury-Steen) writes:
>Any bird watchers on the East Coast seen a Ruby throated
>hummingbird yet?  The local garden center in southern
>Pennsylvania says they were due on April 15, which sounds
>very early.  My nectar feeder is out, but no takers yet.
>--

A naturalist kind of calendar my community put out a few years ago
had April 15 noted as the day hummingbirds return.  I never saw them
in *my* yard before June 1.  This is Northern Virginia, west of
Washington D.C.  However, a week ago Monday which would have been
April 8, a woman reported to the local Wild Bird Center store that
there was a hummer in her yard that day.  That would be the Maryland
suburbs of D.C.  I am going to put my feeder out this weekend and
buy a fushcia and some salvia.

Suzanne (Northern Virginia)