Cascadia Hummingbird Report - 03/27/2001

There were more reports of RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRDS from British
Columbia last week. Birds are also continue to move up slope
from the Willamette Valley with more reports from the Coast
Range and foothills of the Cascades. Many observers reported
spikes in the numbers of hummingbirds coming to their feeders.
I had a spike to 7 individuals on 03-22 that flatten back to
2 birds by the next day.

RUHU(males)
Lake Stevens, WA 03-18-2001 77 48.0296 122.0706
Sheridan, OR 03-18-2001 77 45.0954 123.3951
Parksville, BC 03-18-2001 77 49.3167 124.3167
Port Angeles, WA 03-20-2001 79 48.1123 123.4399
Fall City, OR 03-21-2001 80 44.5200 123.2663
Estacada, OR 03-21-2001 81 45.3125 122.4030
Discovery Bay, WA 03-23-2001 82 48.1160 122.8633
Gibsons, BC 03-24-2001 83 49.4000 123.5000

RUHU(females)
SW Eugene 03-19-2001 78 44.0022 123.0794
Sheridan, OR 03-18-2001 77 45.0954 123.3951
S.Salem, OR 03-20-2001 79 44.8833 123.0167
Luckiamute, OR 03-21-2001 80 44.8014 123.2681

A COSTA'S HUMMINGBIRD was seen at Agate Lake near Medford, OR
on 03-21-2001. Costa's Hummingbird has become annual now in
Southern Oregon.

The Neawanna Ecological Observatory will be banding hummingbirds
this week (weather permitting). A male and two females were
captured and banded yesterday. With (lots of) luck we may catch
one of those Louisiana birds. Wouldn't that be way cool?

In flower news, Salmonberry is averaging 1-2 flowers per meter
of cane at most sites, with much high numbers in uncanopied areas.
Most willows examined are in full stamenate or pistilate condition.
The most common insects seen in last week's bug check were small
weevils, though anthocorids and psyllids are still well represented
in the samples.

--
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