Date: 09/21/2008

Number: 1

Hurricane Ike came thru when it would have been the traditional peak for the R-T Hummingbird migration here along the middle of the Texas coast. But it is a week later now and the Hummers have seemingly adjusted their calendar by at least a week. The backyard has been full of Hummers nectaring on every flower and every feeder I would put out. They are loving the Turk's Caps, scarlet sage, red and raspberry pentas, and I have even seen them on the A. curassavica. The 45 mph winds here blew the blooms off the native flowers out near the bays and I guess that has left the backyards. It gets real bare and bleak closer to Galveston and High Island, where winds topped 110, ... poor migratory passerines and then come the Coastal Monarchs in three weeks. Hawks, esp Broad Wings, are in high migration since Tuesday, nearing 30,000 a day just west of Corpus Christi, at the Hawk Watch site at the Hazel Bazemore County Park. Harlen

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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