Subject: Hummers...Hello/Goodbye.
Date: Jun 28 07:01:28 2004
From: Nancy - nelrjb at comcast.net


Hi Cleo,
I have not seen the hummers at our feeders for a while. We have 3 juviniles
feasting on our flowers though. The mom and pop seem to have left
altoghter. Maybe the frisky kids drove them off?
Nancy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cleo Andreasen" <cleoand at fidalgo.net>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: Hummers...Hello/Goodbye.


> Is anyone missing their hummers out there? During our 'hot spell" of 80
> plus degrees (15 June-21 June), I had 5-6 Rufous at my feeder
> constantly. My sister, who has been feeding hummers at the same location
> for 10 years, had the same situation. On the 22nd, the morning was
> foggy and temps much cooler. She had one hummer. I had none. Now she has
> a intermittent couple that buzz through and go through the flowers but
> not at the feeder. One adult male went to the feeder and acted like he
> didn't know how it worked. They must be transients. The birds adored my
> blooming catonester but no dice now.
> A friend of ours, who lives in the Santa Clara/Stanford area of
> California, has the Rufous come through in the spring and about 2-3
> weeks after her first spring sighting we can expect them up here. Now I
> am anxious to hear from her if she spots them coming back through. We
> have kept a log on this for over 10 years. This spring she commented
> that they were 2-3 weeks early like 1 January. Perhaps they will be
> early this fall. Who knows??
>
> Cleo Andreasen
> Anacortes, WA
> cleoand at fidalgo.net
>