Hi Tweets,

Joan Macdonald and Jim Brewster wonder, re Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus:

>Are they
>repeat customers? My hunch is that they are.

Very likely to almost certainly. Perhaps as a result of spending significant
amounts of their lives in torpor, hummingbirds seem to live a long time,
chronologically. I've heard ten to fourteen years for Rufous. Couple that
with migratory navigation programming more spatially precise than a cruise
missile's (there's a mental cartoon: waves of migrant Tomahawks heading back
to Baghdad; anyone want to work out *their* average arrival dates? '-), they
return to the same flowering bushes each year, so checking out a location
where they remember a feeder from the year before won't be a stretch.

Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
Vancouver BC Canada full of religion, knavery and change;
mprice at mindlink.net we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)