My neighbor just reported having her first RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD of the season
at her feeder today. She thinks she might have first glimpsed it 4 days
ago. We are right on the water at Herring Cove, 8 miles south of Ketchikan.

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* Sharron Huffman * "What would the world be,
* Ketchikan, Alaska * once bereft of wet and wildness?
* sharron at ptialaska.net * Let them be left.
*************************** Oh let them be left, wildness and wet ..."

--Gerard Manley
Hopkins