Ironically, I was up in Victoria this week visiting the herbaria
there and noted a vocalizing Anna's on the campus of the Univ. of
Victoria -- probably within range of a neighborhood feeder... It was
quite windy and chilly, at least for us Seattle softies...



>The warming effect of climate change is predicted to be most
>pronounced in the continent's interior, not at its coasts. In
>southwestern British Columbia, one is hard-pressed in winter to find
>an Anna's Hummingbird that is not within a few hundred metres of a
>feeder. I think that there is very much to be worried about here.
>What we observe and attribute as consequences of our actions is not
>necessarily all that occurs as a result of them, the actions in this
>case being the planting of winter-flowering non-native trees and
>shrubs and the supplying of sucrose solution at feeders. And just
>because there is no apparent competition, hybridization, or
>inter-species disease communication now, does it mean that there
>will never be? Natural selection is occurring as we speak. And
>what happens in 1,000 years? Are people going to be feeding and
>planting for hummingbirds then? What will be the values and goals
>of humanity then?
>
>_ Regards,
>( '< Jason Rogers
>/ ) ) Banff, AB
>//" " hawkowl at hotmail.com


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Mark Egger
Seattle, WA
USA
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