After the Birder's Night lambasting of the Oregonian's bird article
(which was amusing), I find this equally amusing given that in
yesterday's outdoors section, the reporter (I think Bill Monroe) suggested
that people in Portland put up their hummingbird feeders as they be
getting back soon. RK

On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Sharron Huffman wrote:

> 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.
>
> ***************************
> * 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
>
>
>

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Hm: Portland, OR --Ren Hoek
Wk: Clark College
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