Subject: Re: Rufous Hummingbird
Date: Mar 10 00:13:24 1996
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweets,

The average arrival and departure dates for Rufous Hummingbirds in
Vancouver BC are March 11 and August 31 respectively. Arrivals have been
tending early the last few years.

Arrival sightings here are almost invariably in sheltered pockets of
blooming salmonberry on south-facing slopes. A personal exception to this
was seeing a male RUHU working a row of cherry trees in the last week of a
cool February before there were any salmonberry flowers opened.


Michael Price The only alien planet is Earth.
Vancouver BC Canada
mprice at mindlink.net - J. G. Ballard