Subject: It's hummingbird science time again
Date: Jan 5 17:06:45 2001
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


Many of you may recall that last year we started a program to
monitor Rufous Hummingbird movements through the spring. Many
of you participated by reporting hummingbird first detections.
I also posted protocols for tracking humingbirds through the entire
migration period by counting hummingbirds at you feeder through
May and track the blooming of Salmonberry and Red Currant.
I'll be posting the preliminary results from that effort soon.

I'd like to invite interested folks to participate again this
year. I've included another protocol to monitor insects on
willows (aimed mostly at coastal areas).

These would be good projects for science classrooms, home schoolers
as well as interested citizen scientists watching birds in the back
yard.

Check out the protocols at:
http://columbia-pacific.interrain.org/ahscience/humm/count.html
And general information on PNW hummingbirds at:
http://home.pacifier.com/~mpatters/archive/humm/humm.html

--
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
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html