I saw a hummingbird Monday--I went out my back door and he was right
there at some of my Cardinal Climber vine that crept up the railing to
the back stairs. I think we both scared each other but he just flew over
to the main vines on the fence and continued eating.
The foilage on those vines looks bad now and I had thought about taking
them out but they're still putting out flowers so I left them--I guess
at least one bird is still using them although maybe he should have been
on his way out of town by now?


animaux wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:34:08 -0600, Rusty Mase wrote:


Yes, there are some birds, like these, that have a permanent resident
component and a migratory component. Others are variations of true
permanent residents or true migratory birds.


I also think naturalistically, Austin and surrounding areas are a part of a very
large corridor. A corridor which has animals who only live in the corridor.
Some live within and can go to either side of the corridor, but this is still
pretty untouched around here. Still large hay fields and farms.



I have not seen a hummingbird for several weeks now. And maybe we
will be lucky and the grackles will all migrate to Mexico and forget
how to get back.

Rusty Mase


Me neither. I saw one hummer about 3 weeks ago sopping up my S.mexicana and
tithonia, etc. We had more hummers this year than any other year. I hope they
made it down to Mexico through that hurricane.

As for grackles, they were coming here to my large live oaks during the day.
Boy are they noisy and did they get grackle spackle all over the place. The
weather changed and they've not been back, but I did see a HUGE flock of them
today on the road. I thought they were bats at first. That's a sign they are
on their way off. Bye to them. Poor Benihanna's (sp?)