Date: 09/20/2013

Number: 3

Second sighting report for today. Temperatures dropped from 80 degrees to 70 degrees just after midday when the rains came. Only three females spotted at feeders this evening (2 adults and 1 juvenile). Last hummer at feeder departed at 7:35pm (earliest last visit departure so far this season). Not seen this evening was the plump little female that only preferred to visit the Rose-of-Sharon blooms. She was there this morning just like every morning for the past 5 days but was absent tonight. It is possible her internal clock has told time to depart southward. We'll see if she is back tomorrow morning. Now comes the contest of who chooses to depart southward last. It's always a sight to observe, if a person gets the chance, when the last regular of the season sits near the feeders, chirping loudly and constantly gazing about the sky for signs or sounds of another hummer. The returned silence and absence of another hummer almost always finds them having one more long last drink and more often than not, for the last seventeen years, none will be spotted at the feeders again for the season.

Kendallville, IN

Latitude: 41.5 Longitude: -85.3

Observed by: Michael
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