We do not live anywhere near water and have never seen an Annas in the vacinity of our Renton home. We have resident Rufous all summer but they have left for the year.

I heard that the migrating Rufous send a male scout in the spring, and if he finds a place he likes to visit, he calls the others. Now how would someone know that? Is there any truth to this story?

Nancy
Renton, WA.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nladenbe at aol.com
To: dawnsdog at rainierconnect.com ; tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: hummers anyone?


Hi Tweeters,

I have at least one adult male Anna's coming daily to my feeder now. I had three last winter but none of those were adult male Anna's. I took pictures of one of the female Anna's sitting on my wind chimes and in the snow on my wrought iron fencing. She looked like a "black blob". I would keep your feeder going for a while. It has been at least two weeks since I had my last known Rufous.

I have had one theory presented to me about maybe people closer to the water, like I am, get more Anna's! Any other comments on this theory?

Nancy Ladenberger
Kingston, WA
nladenbe at aol.com