
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="21hbn" data-offset-key="cgems-0-0" style="font-family: 'San Francisco', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="cgems-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="cgems-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">For the 1-31 May 2016 installment of "This Week at Hilton Pond" we take a look at an assortment of wildflowers (and their pollinators) from West Virginia where we spent the first week of the month before returning to South Carolina for some interesting bird banding sessions. To view the latest edition, please visit <a href="http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek160501.html" class="">http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek160501.html</a></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="21hbn" data-offset-key="1d6oq-0-0" style="font-family: 'San Francisco', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="1d6oq-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="1d6oq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="21hbn" data-offset-key="3nn74-0-0" style="font-family: 'San Francisco', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="3nn74-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="3nn74-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">While there please remember to scroll down for an impressive list of returns and recaptures--including 21 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds that showed up after being banding in 2015 or earlier.</span></div><div data-offset-key="3nn74-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="3nn74-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div data-offset-key="3nn74-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="3nn74-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Happy Nature Watching!</span></div><div data-offset-key="3nn74-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="3nn74-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div data-offset-key="3nn74-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="3nn74-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">BILL</span></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">

<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Please "Like" our new Facebook pages at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/HiltonPond" class="">http://www.facebook.com/HiltonPond</a> for timely updates on nature topics,<br class="">and for info about hummingbirds at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/rubythroats" class="">http://www.facebook.com/rubythroats</a><br class=""><br class="">Follow us on Twitter @hiltonpond</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">=========<br class=""><br class="">RESEARCH PROGRAM<br class="">℅ BILL HILTON JR., D.Sci.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Executive Director<br class="">Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History<br class="">1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA<br class="">office & cell (803) 684-5852<br class=""><br class="">Please visit our web sites (courtesy of <a href="http://comporium.net" class="">Comporium.net</a>):<br class="">Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History at <a href="http://www.hiltonpond.org" class="">http://www.hiltonpond.org</a> <br class="">"Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project" at <a href="http://www.rubythroat.org" class="">http://www.rubythroat.org</a><br class=""><br class="">==================</div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>

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