Date: 08/18/2000

Number: 1

We have had hummingbird feeders up for two weeks and the hummers have begun to show up in numbers along the Gulf coast. We have been able to watch as many as five at one time ... fighting over the feeders and the flowers in our wildscape backyard. Some reports of as many as 12 hummers at one time ... mostly Ruby-Throated. Hawks are beginning to migrate thru the area ... still fewer than a hundred per day. We have not seen a monarch for about a month but there is wild, native milkweed in the area that has good growth and with large blooms (Asclepias viridis). TS Beryl was a miss, about 300 miles south and west of us.

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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