Date: 09/06/2003

Number: 1

Between six and six forty-five this morning we had
sixty to eighty RT Hummingbirds "stacked up" in our backyard. They were working the coral, red, and scarlet salvia, Turk's cap, red and raspberry penta, plus going to the twelve feeders ... started when I could only see them up against the lighter sky when dawn was breaking. By 7:15 the number was down to twenty, by 8:00 down to a dozen, by 11:30 only six. A good north breeze blowing by ten this morning, sky cleared, 90 dF. Our best guess was the wind had begun to pick up from the north and they topping off their tanks or had just arrived along the coastal bend before jumping off for the Yucatan this morning!!! Some probably will circumnavigate the Gulf rather than transmigrate, but most will be to the Yucatan (tomorrow noon?, tomorrow night?), calculate that trip non stop!

Victoria, TX

Latitude: 28.8 Longitude: -97

Observed by: Harlen E.
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