Subject: ANNA;S and RUFOUS:
Date: Mar 22 20:45:49 2000
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Tweeters,
After on Monday dicovering i had a male Rufous,i was verry disappointed not
seeing the Rufous at all on Tuesday. I watched the Anna,' almost to dark
,seeing the male with his realy bright red head summing around me again.No
i did not wear any red,but this happen before as he was chasing a female.
Comming home today around 2.30PM there was the male Rufous already sitting
close to the feeder.I certainly was relieved to seeing this little male
back. I never experienced having both species of Hummigbirds in my yard
before,so this would be nice to keep a record and data what is going to be
happen. Well it was a swirling and chasing to dark with all this hummers.
But i also discovert i have 2 male Rufous.The one sitting real quite on the
feeder perch and one what is the chaser,never sit down,when he sips the
sweet sugarwater he hoovers.This chasing repeated about 5 times,to the
quite male disappeard,but than he chased every female Anna's of.This little
guy was busy and also was the last bird in the yard this evening. When
Patrick came home 6.45 pm he still saw him chasing the Anna,s and had a
good look at this male. I am almost sure that this one male Rufous what is
so aggressive will again breed in or around our yard. I also notice the
behavier is the same on this male Rufous than in previous years.
Sitting either on the highest twig in the tree or you can find him in the
Wild-red Currant bush.To this day i never saw one Anna's this year using
the Red Currant.This bushes are close to my house and i been watching it
close.By Friday i expect that the female Rufous will arrive. It is usual
three to four day,that what my dates are showing from previous years.I
always envying People who had so many Hummingbirds as i saw on Ocean Shores
where we got our Anna,s in May on the Birdathon on chinook drive,where we
saw a feeder full of Rufous maybe 15 bird and we had one Anna,s he realy
stood out
i never forgot this,and now it happen here,it's sure nice to have both
species, and maybe seeing lots of young ones comming up.

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
godwit at worldnet.att.net