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speed has been measured at approximately 60 miles per hour.
The hummingbird does not live on nectar alone. Most of their nutrition comes from small insects such as fruit flies, gnats, mosquitoes, aphids, spiders and insect eggs. For nectaring, the hummingbird has a unique, long tongue designed to lap up the nectar—no sucking is required. The tongue utilizes capillary action that allows the nectar to rise through grooves running the length of the tongue to the mouth.
As you may have noticed, hummingbirds can drink very quickly, as they flit from flower to flower or feeder to feeder. Don’t worry about leaving your feeders up too long. Our hummingbird friends will leave according to their genetic cleckwork. There is nothing we can do to entice them to linger no matter what the old wives tales tell us. When it is time to go, they are gone.
Thank you hummingbirds for all the viewing pleasure you have given us these long spring and summer months You-are indeed unique.
Local observations
Donn Jones of Amissville called in a few reports to say he saw the common nighthawk, red-eyed vireo, rock dove, and the eastern pewee. We on Long Mountain Road add the yellowbreasted chat.
For those interested in receiving an updated list of all birds cited in Rappahannock, e-mail Bruce Jones at bsjonz@earthlink.net.
We would like to add more species to our waterfowl count, so if you are near any bodies of water, please get out the binoculars and call Bruce at 6753152 or e-mail bsjonz@earthlink.net
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