Date: 09/16/2001

Number: 1

There are still occasional Ruby Throated Hummingbirds passing throughin groups. We have one stubborn little lady hummer that I call Summer. I see her every morning at the window feeder in the kitchen. We've come close to frost on the last few nights. The sky is still and black with diamond sparkling stars as the cold deepens. I think of this tiny creature huddling all alone in a tree somewhere each cold night. But each morning, there she is again, sipping from the feeder! I'm sure she knows how much I'll miss her like all the things of summer. Perhaps she's this year's baby and not quite ready to move on. Sure don't want to find a hummer popsickle some cold autumn morning! Read a story in Reader's Digest of a lady that kept a hummer in a greenhouse all winter, but I don't have a greenhouse!

Marne, MI

Latitude: 43.1 Longitude: -85.8

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