![]() "They connect us to heaven, so to speak." "I think that birds are fascinating to people because they leave the Earth," Rusert said. It was more of a sense of intrigue, or love. Read more about the rate Allen's hummingbird that came to Harwich Port in tomorrow's Cape Cod Times.It wasn't necessarily a sense of duty that drew Tom Rusert to co-found Sonoma Birding, a band of volunteer "citizen scientists" who monitor and appreciate birds in their regional habitat. However, some populations of the birds are tough enough for milder winters. All three of the Allen's hummingbirds that have been seen in the state died in New England winter weather. These birds are hard to keep alive in captivity,” French said. It was taken to Wild Care in Eastham, where clinic director Lela Larned and her staff tried to bring it back to health. Just as suddenly, one of its wings got some sugar water on it, froze, and the bird dropped from the feeder onto the wood deck. Then, it suddenly materialized, sipping sugar water from the plastic red bell of one of the fake flowers on the feeder. ![]() It was a really cold morning,” Omar said yesterday. It had come to the feeder every day, every few minutes, sunup to sundown, for months, sometimes through horrendous winter storms. ![]() ![]() 10, she assumed the worst when the bird didn't appear for three hours in the morning. 19.Ĭhristine Omar thought the day might come when the tiny hummingbird, which had been visiting the feeder outside her sunroom since October, just wouldn't show. Tom French, MassWildlife assistant director for natural heritage and endangered species, said the Allen's hummingbird, a type that has only been seen in Massachusetts three times, died Jan. A rare hummingbird that had been sustained well into winter by the sugar water in a feeder at a Harwich home, has died.ĭr. ![]()
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