[NatureNS] A Hummingbird Story... maybe someone could comment

Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:45:32 -0300
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I got a call around 9:00 last night from Clarence Landry of Seaview, 
Rich. Co., concerned about a male Hummer fluffed up and literally 
"stuck" to his feeder.  He was concerned it might be in ill health. I 
told him it was probably very cold.  He called back later saying that he 
had gone outside and found the male on the ground beneath the feeder, 
not moving, and with a female sitting close against it.  He took them 
both in the house and left them in a covered box overnight.  This 
morning the male was dead and the female flew away as soon as he 
released it outside.  It then went directly to the feeder.  Was the male 
sick, or would it have frozen? Is this common behavior for the female to 
stick close by a sick/dying mate?
Billy

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