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I had my first visual of a female hummingbird at one of my feeders here in White Point, Queens about 1/2 hour ago. (May 3rd) This is early for me. It was a larger bird so am 99% sure it wasn't a male without colour on throat. Yesterday we had to go to the valley briefly and several passed the car, I even braked in Annapolis so I didn't hit one. Sat. I had a few minutes in town, heard swallows and looked down from Main street into the parking lot. Much ado there. There was quite a number of swallows, both tree and barn. (There are usually swallows nesting in the light standards there). They were acting as though they had freshly arrived. I checked Friday when we were in the parking lot and there wasn't any sign of them yet. I came home to find 3 male goldfinches tacking the sunflower seed container and three swallows arguing over who uses the houses. This is the third year we have had a solitary male bird trying to hold a house from a pair of birds. He doesn't seem to be interested in the female just the location. This year we switched the houses around and the same thing happened. I expected to see swallows around barns as we came down the New Germany road (very bad shape in places) ...not a single sighting. Marg Millard, White Point, Queens
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