My wife's mother who lives on the Long Beach Peninsula north of Ocean Park
has had Anna's Hummingbirds all winter. Put out that feeder!

(We've had two of them in our West Seattle backyard all winter, too. I hear
them talking to each other -- "tik,tik, tik" almost every time I go
outside.)

Paul Webster
Seattle
paul.webster at comcast.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Ann27Jan at aol.com
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:56 PM
Subject: Busy Back Yard!


This has been the most amazing day at my bird feeder (as I'm sure it has
been at yours as well!) and in my back yard.I spent about three hours
observing the goings on! We've had the following visitors:
* our first ever varried thrushes (a pair)
* a robin, generally not seen this time of year in my yard
* about one hundred starlings (three died from crashing into the wall
of the neighbor's house), all of them fighting tooth and nail for the seeds
* our first ever Red Tailed Hawk who snatched one of the starlings out
of the neighbors bird feeder and flew up into the trees behind my house to
finish him off
* we've also had an increase in towees at our feeder, and a fox
sparrow, not seen before the recent storm
* the usual juncos, chick-a-dees, finches
* gone as of late last week are the jays and flickers
I haven't seen any anna'a hummingbirds and don't have feeders out. Should
I put some out? Has anyone else in Westport seen any recently?
One of the Audubon board members said she has a friend who reported a
black and white warbler in Tokeland last week. Has anyone else seen it?
Jan/Westport