Tweets,

I have this distant memory from my childhood in southern California of
finding a Loggerhead Shrike in my back yard dead with an Anna's Hummingbird
impaled in its chest, but it's been so long I can't be sure I didn't dream it.

Gene Hunn.



At 03:48 PM 4/7/98 -0700, you wrote:
>From: B&P Bell <bellasoc at mail.isomedia.com>
>
>Hi Tweets
>
>I can second Jane Westervelt's comment regarding Anna's Hummingbird. I
>have a friend in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada who has multiple
>feeders out, and usually attracts anywhere from 4-7 species on a regular
>to occasional basis. (Anna's, Black-chinned, Rufous, Calliope regularly,
>Allen's, Costa's and Broad-tailed on a much more occasional basis.) He
>says, and I have observed, that the Anna's are the most pugnacious of
>all consistently. Even with 20-some feeders, the Anna's claim all of
>them, establish dominance, and then quarrel among themselves. Jack says
>that the fights can get really ferocious.
>
>Brian H. Bell
>Woodinville Wa
>bellasoc at isomedia.com
>
>
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