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Peter Hornak

Wed, Sep 10, 2008 2:58 PM

I had a friend (in Killingworth) tell me she had two HUMMINGBIRDS fly into the garage around dusk and fly around the light. Has anyone observed this? She was concerned something was wrong with one of the birds because it seemed a little listless.
Peter Hornak
Wallingford

I had a friend (in Killingworth) tell me she had two HUMMINGBIRDS fly into the garage around dusk and fly around the light. Has anyone observed this? She was concerned something was wrong with one of the birds because it seemed a little listless. Peter Hornak Wallingford

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Glenn Williams

Wed, Sep 10, 2008 4:32 PM

Several springs ago I was closing up my garage for the night and heard a buzzing against the garage door windows - sort of like a big insect against the glass. It was fairly dark. The noise stopped and I went into the house. In the morning I found a freshly dead female Ruby-throat next to my truck.

Last winter when we were visited very briefly but twice by a Rufous Hummingbird, we were pulling out of the garage and the hummingbird flew from the feeder and into the garage. He hovered around the red emergency pulldown handle on the garage door. We waited until he flew back out before closing the door. The handle was well within the garage and I wouldn't think it would have been visible from where he was at the feeder.

Glenn Williams
Mystic, CT

--- On Wed, 9/10/08, Peter Hornak pmhornak@sbcglobal.net wrote:

From: Peter Hornak pmhornak@sbcglobal.net
Subject: [CT Birds] Hummingbird Behavior
To: ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org
Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 10:58 AM
I had a friend (in Killingworth) tell me she had two
HUMMINGBIRDS fly into the garage around dusk and fly around
the light. Has anyone observed this? She was concerned
something was wrong with one of the birds because it seemed
a little listless.
Peter Hornak
Wallingford

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Several springs ago I was closing up my garage for the night and heard a buzzing against the garage door windows - sort of like a big insect against the glass. It was fairly dark. The noise stopped and I went into the house. In the morning I found a freshly dead female Ruby-throat next to my truck. Last winter when we were visited very briefly but twice by a Rufous Hummingbird, we were pulling out of the garage and the hummingbird flew from the feeder and into the garage. He hovered around the red emergency pulldown handle on the garage door. We waited until he flew back out before closing the door. The handle was well within the garage and I wouldn't think it would have been visible from where he was at the feeder. Glenn Williams Mystic, CT --- On Wed, 9/10/08, Peter Hornak <pmhornak@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > From: Peter Hornak <pmhornak@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: [CT Birds] Hummingbird Behavior > To: ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org > Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 10:58 AM > I had a friend (in Killingworth) tell me she had two > HUMMINGBIRDS fly into the garage around dusk and fly around > the light. Has anyone observed this? She was concerned > something was wrong with one of the birds because it seemed > a little listless. > Peter Hornak > Wallingford > _______________________________________________ > This list is provided by the Connecticut Ornithological > Association (COA) for the discussion of birds and birding in > Connecticut. > For subscription information visit > http://lists.ctbirding.org/mailman/listinfo/ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org

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Roy Harvey

Wed, Sep 10, 2008 5:42 PM

It is said that a common cause for hummingbirds to enter garages is, strangely enough, garage door openers. There is generally a release to allow opening the door when the power is out. When the door is open the rope for the release hangs down, and the red handle attracts the hummingbirds. The method I have heard of for capturing them is to make the garage completely dark, at which point the bird will land and can be taken in hand.

This link goes into the whole thing.

http://www.hummingbirds.net/about.html#garage

Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT

It is said that a common cause for hummingbirds to enter garages is, strangely enough, garage door openers. There is generally a release to allow opening the door when the power is out. When the door is open the rope for the release hangs down, and the red handle attracts the hummingbirds. The method I have heard of for capturing them is to make the garage completely dark, at which point the bird will land and can be taken in hand. This link goes into the whole thing. http://www.hummingbirds.net/about.html#garage Roy Harvey Beacon Falls, CT