It was mine too. This is the first winter we have ever had a pair of Anna's
coming to a feeder and only one other time have we had one here. We are on
the bay, 3 miles from town. The pair have been making visits for about 3
weeks.
Giving a hoot from Olympia, Woody Franzen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cliff Drake" <cliff at cliffdrake.net>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 11:04 AM
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] First bird of 2007


> Mine was a feeder fird, an Anna's Hummingbird. When I went out to get
> the paper there was nothing around, none of the usual suspects like
> crows, gulls, starlings, robins, juncos or house sparrows, not a peep
> from anywhere. There's been a young sharpie hanging around, I didn't
> see him today, but he could have been lurking somewhere. Last week the
> sharpie was in my plum tree about 25 feet from the house right at eye
> level, pretty cool. He had an Anna's chewing him out. Two Anna's now, a
> big chase. They spend do much time chasing and not eating I'm surprised
> they can do it for so long.
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> Cliff Drake
> Seattle WA (Ballard)
> cliff at cliffdrake.net
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