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| Male rufous hummingbird in St. John's County Florida |
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| Adult male Baltimore oriole at Julie Cocke's house in Jacksonville, FL |
Today I observed the rufous hummingbird that has been frequenting my friend Gary Davis' house for the past two weeks. I was with Ken Jones and Kevin Dailey. We arrived at 07:45 and the bird arrived a few minutes later. We saw it off and on, about every 15 minutes, until we left at 10:00. Rufous hummers show up quite regularly in Florida, but are rare here around the greater Jacksonville area. This guy has been here for at least two weeks. Rufous hummingbirds have a reputation of being tough and that's a good thing with this week's near record freezing temperatures dipping into the low 20's!
On our way back to Fort George Island we stopped at the home of Julie Cocke and saw her two beautiful Baltimore Orioles, both adult, one male, one female. This was 2009 year bird 156. We saw some Wild Turkeys along the road over to Gary's for #155.
This was my first rufous observed in St. John's County, FL.
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