I got my first one years as well! Spotswood, NJ - A healthy male! Stephen Bahr Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 26, 2024, at 5:45 PM, Karenne Snow <njwren46...> wrote: > > Last year, in my new place, I transformed a 10 x 10 "front yard" of gravel > into a perennial bed of (mostly) native plants. I was hoping to encourage > the bees and butterflies and birds, some of whom I heard nearby that spring. > > Everything flourished and though I didn't see a wide variety of > butterflies, I did have a good assortment of pollinators on lavender, Joe > pye weed, st John's wort, pentas, hibiscus (that non-native) and some > annuals I was gifted. Then one day in the late summer, a female hummingbird > stopped by! I was so excited! It worked! And finally, the feeder that had > been up for a good long while was being used, too. > > Over the winter, I enjoyed the usual feeder and ground birds, plus > bluebirds, yellow rumped warblers, and an oriole at the suet feeder. All > that in the "no man's land" between the pinelands and central Jersey. > > Two days ago I finally finished cleaning the bird feeder area and I put up > the hummingbird feeder. > > Today, there she was! The only plants blooming right now are iris and > violets and the last of the hyacinth. But she remembered or saw the feeder. > Yay! > > Karenne > > List Guidelines: https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2107&L=JERSEYBI&P=R685&X=OE8E22FEF3A2B10DFE5 > List help: <jerseybi-request...> > List archives: https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=jerseybi > NJ Bird Records Committee: http://www.njbrc.com/ This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.
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