A Rare Visitor: ; Rufous Hummingbird Showing Up in State

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SCARBRO - In November, as winter was closing in and the last of the region's native hummingbirds had migrated out, Franklin "Buddy" Sowder decided it was time to take down and store his two hummingbird feeders.

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A Rare Visitor: ; Rufous Hummingbird Showing Up in State

"I took one feeder down and put it up, and when I went to get the other one, I saw a hummingbird out there," Sowder recalled.

Sowder, who is disabled and enjoys watching the tiny, hovering birds, decided to keep the remaining feeder up through the winter, rigging it with a heat lamp to keep the sugar water feeding solution from freezing.

"For a while...

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