Date: 10/08/2013

Number: 1

Another recoerded latest day ever for me to sight a hummingbird in the last seventeen hummingbird seasons took place at 7:45am this morning. My casual glance out the kitchen window caught sight of a plump green jewel perched and sipping fresh 2:1 water/sugar mixture from one of two remaining feeders on the patio. While unable to definitively ascertain it's sex due to pre-sunrise lighting, it was a high point of the day, none the least! Temperature over night was 45 degrees and mid to high 60's forecast for today, I was expecting nary more than the usual outdoor fall pre-winter prep of yard work on my day off of work. However, that yard work will now be undertaken beneath sunny skies with a huge smile gracing my face and continuing glances in the direction of our hummer feeders. Should by chance another late season jeweled migrating traveler choses to make a stop and go at our feeders on their southward flight, I won't want to miss seeing them and wishing them Godspeed. Keep the feeders hanging for 2 weeks after your last sighting ...... for you just never know!

Kendallville, IN

Latitude: 41.5 Longitude: -85.3

Observed by: Michael
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