February 2021
Bird Banter…a wonderful Podcast out of Washington State and this month features Hummingbirds!
Last month I had the pleasure of meeting Ed Pullen and recording an episode for his podcast "Bird Banter". We chatted about hummingbirds. Here's a link to the podcast...http://birdbanter.com/index.php/2021/02/22/the-bird-banter-podcast-92-with-cyndi-routledge-additional-info/ I invite you to listen and [...]
January 2021
WINTER HUMMINGBIRDS AND NPR
A phone call in almost a year ago began a series of events that culiminated in a wonderful story on NPR's! Here's the link to the story. https://wpln.org/post/more-winter-hummingbirds-are-spotted-in-tennessee-giving-data-on-these-elusive-creatures/ I hope you take a few minutes [...]
December 2020
Allen’s Hummingbird Re-encounter
Exciting news was received on 12/28/20 when veteran bander and colleague Fred Bassett called me to report he had recaptured a hatch-year male Allen's Hummingbird wearing one of my bands at a host home [...]
November 2020
Busy week for winter birds in the southeast
It was a busy Thanksgiving week for SEAR. We had multiple reports of winter hummingbirds that culminated in the banding of a juvenile male Allen's Hummingbird in Rutherford County, the second Allen's in Tennessee this [...]
Winter Hummingbird season off to a GREAT start
The 2020 Winter Hummingbird season is off to a terrific start in both Tennessee and Mississippi with multiple sightings and banding sessions. From the return male Rufous in Williamson County to a very late Ruby-throated [...]
October 2020
2020 Ruby-throated Hummingbird banding season Wrap-up…
It’s hard to believe that we’re in mid-October already. Ruby-throated hummingbird migration banding season ended for the most part on September 29th with the banding of 5 very FAT birds including the fattest I’ve ever [...]