I saw my first in yard RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD this morning and
am submitting this to demonstrate how hummingbird census
counts may be submitted to http://birdnotes.net

A more complete description can be found at:
http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/humm/count.html

Unless something really amazing turns up in your yard,
they should not be emailed to obol or tweeters, just
sent to birdnotes.

Date: March 4, 2001
Location: "My Yard", Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon

Temperature: 34?F
Wind direction: NE
Prevailing wind speed: 20-28 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 10%
Precipitation: haze or fog

Hummingbird count 0745-0755hr

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Unidentified gull
Rufous Hummingbird 1 [1]
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Winter Wren
European Starling
House Finch

Footnotes:

[1] 1 male; may possibly have been here yesterday, but my wife could
not eliminate Anna's.

Total number of species seen: 9


--
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