Three Random Notes

2. Mine are swarming now but they'll be gone in a week or so.

3.Because you'd like to attend and/or participate or because you like the word?

I think it's because I like the word. It's just fun to say aloud. Where would I go to attend a hootenanny and have it be called that?
K-

I'd probably start looking somewhere along the southern part of the Appalachian Trail ... if I was inclined.

1. Not disliking it either, although I can't say it's changed my life for the better.

2. Hummingbirds have been having a swell late summer here.

3. Do you remember the show? Saturday night on ABC, taped at various college campuses across the country? The host was Art Linkletter's son, Jack. It rode the wave of the folk revival, and only lasted a year or two in the mid-60s, as I remember it (and Wikipedia confirms: April '63 through September '64).

3. Dan, I kind of remember that it existed, vaguely, sort of. But I don't recall ever watching it myself and the thought of Janet and Don White having it on makes me laugh.
K-

Do you note when you first see them in the spring, too? I still have a few but I'm not sure if they're regulars are just passing through from up north.

Rob, I put my feeders up in very late April or early May. This year I had a hummer stop by my feeder the day I put it up. But it's easier to notice when they're gone. It's like one day they're here, the next day gone.

I imagine you're getting rufous hummers in addition to the ruby-thoats?
K-

I haven't seen any rufous hummers this year and I'm disappointed about that. One or two have stopped in the last few years although only briefly and only early in the season. The ruby-throats are still here but their numbers are smaller every day. The ones that have left will turn back up in mid-March. I put the feeders up around March 6 or 7 although the earliest I've seen them is March 10. I miss them terribly when they're gone.