This morning at 7.30, I was strapping a hand warmer to my feeder when a
female Anna's came and fed from it. While my hands were on the feeder, six
inches in front of my eyes. I finished sticking the warmer on and backed
away slowly and left her there.



The poor things must be getting quite desperate - my hummers aren't usually
the tame kind.



Louise Rutter

Kirkland



From: tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Mark
PETERSON
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 12:54 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Anna Hummingbird in the height of the storm Saturday



I was amazed to see an Annas Hummingbird awake and sitting at our feeder at
10:30 pm last night
in the midst of our wind and snow event. I was shocked to see it up at such
a late hour and at the more
exposed feeder yet. It fed for a bit and then went into a beak high wings
slighty
spread nap and then fed again after five minutes. I went to warm up the
feeder and I was able to
get very close before it saw me and flew to a nearby tree. This morning I
have two of my usual hummers
fighting over the feeders, while the third one that was around hasn't shown
up yet.

If anyone wants a photo of the hummer, give me a URL I can post it to for
the group...

It would be interesting to see if anyone notices hummingbird mortality with
this very severe
and long spell of snow and cold. If the Annas survive this, they can
survive anything
Western Washington can throw at them in a usual winter.

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