Dear Dianna,
First to let you know,that we did not been going to Ocean Shores latly,so
the Great Egret is all your find.I dont remember seeing any reported in
Ocean Shores there this year. Good find for Ocean Shores!!!!
Now about the Rufous and the Anna,s.The Rufous is more aqgressive.When on
November 12th 1999 we had a male Anna'scomming to our feeder.A female Anna's
came on the 29th.This two birds stayed all winter,comming to two feeders
constantly.Than in March our first Rufous male arrived and looking to my
notes,this Rufous male took agressivly over.I wrote notes as:on2.45pm male
Rufous and male Anna's chasing each other,,the male Rufous got real
agressive than ,he also went on to the suet .On the 19th the female Rufous
arrived at 4.00 pm I was than real worried about my Anna's might not come
back.The way it went for awhile the Anna's came real early or real latein
the evenig.But after a while there tolerate each other.My Anna's stayed and
been here since this first date.I would hang up two feeders,this in case.I
enjoying my Anna's so much since ther already had the first brut on the
feeder on the 17th of February.The feeder got used that day 36 times and
you can tell by the feathers that there was young birds.So much for
that.It's going to be The Ocean from now on,and thank you for sending the
nice article what Kathleen wrote about the CBC for the Grays Harbor Co.She
is realy a top writer,and i enjoying reading all the other activithy in
Ocean Shores to.When i see you i will tell you about my house.


Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dianna Moore" <dlmoor2 at coastaccess.com>
To: "Tweeters" <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 4:47 PM
Subject: A few sights to behold!


> Hey Tweets:
>
> I already reported here the sighting on Sunday 3/2/03 of an adult male
> Rufous Hummingbird at my feeders, and yesterday, 3/3, a female Rufous
Hummer
> showed up much to the delight of myself and the male. Today I was able to
> just sit and enjoy the sight of the two of them interacting...briefly
> interrupted by the short-lived appearance of another adult male. There
were
> several displays in full view of my seat at the window, with the sun
shining
> on his red gorget and the gold and green colors...just beautiful!
>
> Question: until this male showed up, those feeders were the exclusive
> property of at least one adult male and two female Anna's. The Anna's is a
> larger bird than the Rufous...is this a case of "dynamite comes in small
> packages"?
> Did the Rufous shove the Anna's out of the territory?
>
> My second exciting sighting was today out on the game range here in Ocean
> Shores: a Great Egret. It may already have been reported by the Sullivans,
> if I remember correctly, but it is so out of place to my way of thinking
> that I thought I was seeing a white Great Blue Heron. I have seen Great
> Egrets in the Sacramento, Ca. area but did not expect to see them up here,
> so my mind refused to concede this as one of them. I took photos, but my
210
> zoom lens is sadly lacking.
>
> Good birding, though.
>
> Dianna Moore
> Ocean Shores, Wa.
> dlmoor2 at coastaccess.com
>
>
>