Subject: Re: Warblers again
Date: Apr 8 23:01:27 1997
From: David & Kelley Ward - ward at LocalAccess.com


Janet and other interested Tweeters:
While living in southeast Louisiana, I noticed that Orange-crowned
Warblers were a very common bird at hummingbird feeders in winter. Because
the feeders can be located just outside windows, this offers amazingly
upclose views of this species. They often sit on the little perches
designed for the hummers (that is, until one of the ferocious little hummers
chase them off!!). No other species (other than hummers) seemed to use
these feeders. They would often visit several feeders in a short period of
time, similar to how hummers fly from feeder to feeder.

David Ward
Centralia, WA
ward at localaccess.com

At 08:12 AM 4/8/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello tweets
> My spousal unit Glen Buschmann was in the kitchen this morning,
>looking out at the Red-flowering Currant which is in full glorious
>bloom. We've seen a lot of Hummers using it,but this morning he was
>blown away to watch an Orange-crowned Warbler checking out all the
>flowers and sticking its bill inside of them, apparently taking nectar
>out. He watched this for a good 5 minutes from a distance of about 8
>feet; the warbler moved methodically up and down the bush, checking out
>most of the flowers. I never heard of a warbler that nectared, but
>considering that these birds spend much of their lives in subtropical
>climates, I suppose it shouldn't surprise me. Has anyone else ever heard
>of or seen anything like this?
>Janet Partlow
>partlowj at elwha.evergreen.edu
>