We live on Lake Murray and every year we've had hummingbirds, martins and
May flies.  My neighbor tells me that  she saw one hummer but it left.  We
had good food out, and maybe it's still around, but we haven't seen it
lately.

We live in a more rural area about 20 miles from downtown Columbia, SC.

Carol
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Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: Off subject questions


>"Down here in Georgia"..... I personally have seen a decline in
hummingbirds
>- however, I have associated their decline with the "over" development of
our
>area in metro-Atlanta.  Do you live "geographically" near an increase in
>urban development?  Could this be directly correlated to why mollusks have
>vanished in beach areas where developers have come in and raped the
landscape
>as well as local municipalities failing to regulate and limit live
shelling?
>Our overall loss of "nature" and its family seems to be all a part of a
>pattern, don't you think?
>
>Harrie Jacobs
>Snellville, GA