On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Mike Patterson wrote:

>
> Northwest Hummingbirds ARRIVE by mid-February. Average
> arrival for the south coast of Oregon is February 6;
> mid-coast of Oregon is February 15 and they reach the
> Columbia River as early as February 21. Anna's Hummingbird
> is already here. They are going through what could be
> described as breeding activity in many of the sites
> throughout Oregon from which they have been reported.
> Most breeding records for Anna's in Hummingbirds have
> them sitting on eggs by the first week in March.

i thought that anna's are resident in the seattle area? i have been
buzzed every morning by one male anna's hummingbird as i sleep-walk
into my building on campus.

> If you wait until March 21 to put up your feeder, you'll
> have missed the peak for hummingbirds, swallows and (I
> think) Turkey Vultures: the three species by which I have
> gauged the arrival of spring for the last 27 years.

hrm, a turkey vulture feeder, eh? i wonder what that might look like?

regards,

Deborah Wisti-Peterson email:nyneve at u.washington.edu
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
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