Now that there are Rufous Hummingbirds in Alaska I've done
a comparison of first detection graphs for 2000 and 2001.
Both data sets have had the Willamette Valley numbers filtered
out so they reflect coastal progress only. The regressed lines
are so nearly the same that I hesitated sending them out for
fear that you all would think I made the results up...

http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/humm/count.html#trend

I'm still looking forward to interior reports that should
start coming in any day now.

--
Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
celata at pacifier.com by an unkind establishment,
you must also be right.
---Robert Park
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