>Hi tweeters,
>
>this week-end, I saw my first (I have been here in Vancouver for 4 months now)
>Anna's Hummingbird in Musqueam Park (south-east of UBC). Nice guy with its
>bright pink throat !
>Of course, the guy was hovering close to a hummingbird feeder.
>
>I was wondering if this bird has always been resident in Washington and south
>B.C. or if its presence is linked with the "abundance" of dedicated feeders.
>
>Serge Le Huitouze School of Computing Science
>email: serge at cs.sfu.ca Simon Fraser University
>tel: (604) 291-5423 Burnaby, British Columbia
>fax: (604) 291-3045 V5A 1S6 Canada

It's a relatively recent immigrant to the Northwest, surely because of bird
feeders, or perhaps some winter-blooming flowers planted by people. It's
also spread way to the east into Texas. It used to be restricted to
California and southern Oregon! It's a resident species in its range and
has for the most part continued to be so even when it appears at places
like Anchorage, Alaska, or Missoula, Montana. There are people all over
the Northwest heating their hummingbird feeders in winter.

Dennis Paulson phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416