Feeder Fodder

Winter Hummingbird Banding in North Carolina

January 26th, 2008

There are still those winter stragglers in North Carolina. The following is from Dwayne Martin, Catawba County Park Ranger, regarding recent hummingbird banding activity in North Carolina.

 

Today,1-23-08, I had a five hummingbird day in and around Charlotte.

> Four of them I was able to catch and one was seen, but had no interest

> in the trap. May first capture was a handsome immature male Calliope

> just inside the city limits of Monroe.  My next two captures were

> recaptures from last year in Charlotte; both female Rufous. The fourth

> one was a Selasphorous in Charlotte that didn’t like the look of the

> trap (I’ll try for it again later).  The last one turned out to be the

> most interesting one.  It showed up at a home near downtown Concord

> last Friday.  The hosts noticed late yesterday afternoon that it had a

> band on it.  I was able to catch it pretty quick, and low and behold,

> I recognized the number as one of mine.  It was a female Rufous that I

> had banded in south Charlotte last March.  I guess it decided it was

> time to move to the suburbs. It was a fun, but tiresome day (12 hours

> and 200+ miles).

>>> Dwayne

> *************

> Dwayne Martin

> Hickory, NC

> redxbill@gmail.com

> http://www.naturalsciences.org/nchummers/

>> Catawba County Park Ranger

> Riverbend Park - Conover, NC

> jdmartin@catawbacountync.gov

> http://www.catawbacountync.gov/depts/parks/

 

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