Hummer LbNA #37852 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Lone Star Quilter  |
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| Plant date: | Mar 1, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Bastrop |
| County: | Bastrop |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Mosaic Butterfly |
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| Last found: | Apr 26, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFaFa |
| Last edited: | Mar 1, 2008 |
**Reported Missing**
The Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), is a tiny little bird. It is the only species of hummingbird that regularly nests east of the Mississippi River. They are regular visitors at our home in Coldspring, Texas, arriving sometime in March and departing for points south in October. We may have dozens of them at any one time. We put out feeders so we can watch them and they’ll fly right up to us. If you are extremely patient and still, you can hold out your finger by the feeder and, if you’re lucky, one of them will land on it. The extremely short legs of Ruby-T prevent it from walking or hopping. The best it can do is shuffle along a perch, or your finger. Nevertheless, it scratches its head and neck by raising its foot up and over its wing. This tiny bird beats its wings an average of 53 times per second. I consider the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird a Texas Treasure, but I’m willing to share it with the other folks in the eastern half of the United States.
Directions:
This letterbox is hidden at South Shore Park at Lake Bastrop in Bastrop, Texas. From Bastrop, go north on Hwy. 21 one mile past Bastrop State Park and look for the signs to South Shore Park. Enter the park and pay your fee. Turn right at the first park road towards the camping area.
To the box:
Park in the parking lot between camping site no. 1 and the maintenance road. There's a covered sitting area there. Across the main road that you came in on, you will see a small trail leading into the woods. A culvert marks the spot. Take the trail and you will soon go down a set of steps and then another. You will then climb up 5 steps and, when you do, look to your left. Yous should see a sprawling cedar tree. This tree holds Hummer in the cluster of its lower limbs. Please be sure to replace the sticks and leaves so that the box can't be seen from the trail. Thank you.
The Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), is a tiny little bird. It is the only species of hummingbird that regularly nests east of the Mississippi River. They are regular visitors at our home in Coldspring, Texas, arriving sometime in March and departing for points south in October. We may have dozens of them at any one time. We put out feeders so we can watch them and they’ll fly right up to us. If you are extremely patient and still, you can hold out your finger by the feeder and, if you’re lucky, one of them will land on it. The extremely short legs of Ruby-T prevent it from walking or hopping. The best it can do is shuffle along a perch, or your finger. Nevertheless, it scratches its head and neck by raising its foot up and over its wing. This tiny bird beats its wings an average of 53 times per second. I consider the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird a Texas Treasure, but I’m willing to share it with the other folks in the eastern half of the United States.
Directions:
This letterbox is hidden at South Shore Park at Lake Bastrop in Bastrop, Texas. From Bastrop, go north on Hwy. 21 one mile past Bastrop State Park and look for the signs to South Shore Park. Enter the park and pay your fee. Turn right at the first park road towards the camping area.
To the box:
Park in the parking lot between camping site no. 1 and the maintenance road. There's a covered sitting area there. Across the main road that you came in on, you will see a small trail leading into the woods. A culvert marks the spot. Take the trail and you will soon go down a set of steps and then another. You will then climb up 5 steps and, when you do, look to your left. Yous should see a sprawling cedar tree. This tree holds Hummer in the cluster of its lower limbs. Please be sure to replace the sticks and leaves so that the box can't be seen from the trail. Thank you.