<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="caret-color: rgb(80, 80, 80); color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" class="">After too long a delay I finally finished installment #673 of "This Week at Hilton Pond." This took a while because it is a composite of happenings during the merry month of May in the Carolina Piedmont AND at West Virginia's New River Birding and Nature Festival. Included are lots of images and anecdotal info about birds, wildflowers, butterflies, amphibians, and other natural wonders, including hummingbirds. (We also note how native flora are used by pollinators and as host plants.)</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(80, 80, 80); color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" class="">As usual we provide tallies of all birds banded and recaptured at the Center during the period, as well as acknowledgement of recent support provided by followers of Hilton Pond and "Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project."</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(80, 80, 80); color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" class="">To view our photo essay for 1-31 May 2018, please click on the link: <a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="origin" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hiltonpond.org%2FThisWeek180501.html&h=AT19Llzjy9os_eD6zdhwd9oSTUi47pWm9AQQCGbYVIizKwg12BHMdTStpUb-GqlU__Q2yHTDODccOywej7B9DbBBAF7SbsAPQNNwguYzBFTrPWNl0L3KHhhGxPsQkRtM7i3N7VD6JS1g0s75Qqpn38ZODc2d" href="http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek180501.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);" class="">http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek180501.html</a></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(80, 80, 80); color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" class="">Happy Nature Watching!<br class=""><br class="">BILL</p></div></div><br class=""><div class="">
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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 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:<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></div>
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