Subject: hummingbird display
Date: Nov 24 13:44:10 2002
From: Eugene Hunn - enhunn at attbi.com


Tweets,

I've got two male Anna's hanging around my feeders and just now the one with
the full gorget was perched above the feeders singing while the other male,
with a still partial gorget was engaged in his full display flight, towering
up about 30 feet then careening straight down, the wings making a loud
"cheep" at the bottom. What's going on? The singing male seemed to ignore
the display. Also, is there any evidence that Anna's might breed twice in a
year? Once in late fall-early winter, then again in early spring? In any
case, they seem to sing most of the year (with a notable absence or scarcity
in late spring-summer.

Gene.