Ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic hit an all-time high the past few years and the sea ice off the coast of Newfoundland below normal compared to data taken years ago. We have called it global warming and no one seems to question it anymore. It's not a question about whether these changes are happening anymore, it's a question of the speed at which these things are changing. The photo is of a Ruby Throated Hummingbird i shot through my window last summer. We started seeing them a few years ago and now they reappear every summer here in Cape Ray like clockwork. On the way to work each morning during summer i slow and watch Great Blue Herons feeding in the industrial park region of Port Aux Basques and their numbers increase yearly. Over the pass few years i have captured photos of Snowy Egrets in my community. The Humming birds,Herons and Egrets where not part of my fathers world here nor mine until a few years ago. I can only wonder what mother nature has in store for my grandchildren as they grow here in Newfoundland?
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wow,you learn new things on the net each day.i never thought you could find humming birds down there in newfoundland.i figure sea penguins and other things but never a ruby throat.what are you feeding it there?
hi there anon,i see from your isp your from texas and using ^Southwestern Bell Internet Services.^
yes,we are seeing hummingbirds here on our island and from what i can gather it's their extreme northern range.as for the penguins,they are not native to the northern hemisphere and as far as i know you can only find them in a zoo there.i have boiled sugar water and that seems to attract the humming birds to my garden.
We get a hummingbird or two up in these parts, but not very often. Usually when people say they've seen a hummingbird around here it's actually a hummingbird moth, it's pretty hard to tell the difference unless you get up close. When I was a kid we went out to Wisconsin to visit my Mother's family, everybody out there had a hummingbird feeder, there were loads of them. They're really cool to watch, I wish we had more of them around.
Never knew the place was so big until now.heard about cod and seals but not much else.
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