Subject: Cascadia Hummingbird Report - 02/26/2001
Date: Feb 26 08:16:09 2001
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


Cascadia Hummingbird Report - 02/26/2001

There have been no RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD reports from new locations
for the week. ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRDS are being reported from all
over, many apparently in reproductive mode. Males behaving
territorially have been reported from throughout western Oregon,
Washington and from Victoria and Vancouver in British Columbia.
There are territorial males at each end of my block and a female
that has staked out my feeder. The more conspicuous then usual
presence of ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRDS this year, I think, has created
some confusion in the reporting, as many observers discover that
there are now two regularly breeding species of hummingbirds along
the Pacific Northwest Coast.

Tim Rodenkirk has been kind enough to follow-up on a few sightings
on the southern Oregon coast. It looks like the bird reported from
Port Orford on 02/07 was more probably an ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD. An
ALLEN'S and a definitive RUFOUS were at that feeder on 02/18. I will
be adjusting the map accordingly.

The next two weeks should be pretty busy with new arrivals of
Rufous Hummingbirds.

In flower news, many sites report blooming Indian Plum (it's still
leafing out here on the Columbia River). The number of insects
on willows is rapidly on the rise.

for all the Cascadia Hummingbird news and for information on how to
participate in data collection go to:

http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/humm/count.html
--
Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
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you must also be right.
---Robert Park
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