In a weekly nature column that I write for the Lynchburg News and Advance
I asked everyone to count the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds spotted in their
yard on July 31. I received 202 reports with a total of 1558
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds visiting 444 feeders in the Central Virginia
area. Two people reported a high count of 60 birds (one from Amherst
County and the other from Appomattox County). Fifteen participants
reported more than 20 birds in their yard. I visited the home of a
participant who reported 50 birds at his seven large feeders. The "air
was alive" with hummingbirds. He has been feeding hummingbirds for more
than 20 years at that site.
This is the fourth year of the Central Virginia Hummingbird Count. The
highest number (birds per feeder) was in 2002, the year of the major
drought across the state. Numbers were down in 2003 (the year of the
monsoons) and remained about the same for 2004 and 2005.
Thelma Dalmas
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