I just walked Nisqually this morning and saw 20+ Rufous, and 4 Anna's Hummingbirds, including 4 Rufous circling a bush right in the parking lot. (There were also 10+ Common Yellowthroats on the path out to McCallister Creek.) It sure seemed like a lot. Nice luck with The Calliope!

Rupert Grove
Tacoma

From: georn1 at hotmail.com
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:41:51 +0000
Subject: [Tweeters] Calliope Hummer in Thurston Co.








Hello All,

Yesterday evening I had a most unexpected visitor at our hummungbird feeder. A male Calliope was with the swarms of Rufus Hummers attending our feeder yesterday. This is about 3 weeks earlier than any previous Calliope record that I know of for the county, don't know about other west-side records. And by the way, when I said swarms, I mean there is a remarkable amount of hummingbird activity at our place right now with a notable increase occurring this past Sunday. There are at least 8 (probably more) Rufus and 2 to 4 Anna's jockying for position. One of the Rufus was a green-backed male. This amount of activity is very unusual for our place, where normally activity maxes out with 2 pairs of Rufus or so. Interestingly I noted 9 male Rufus on territory when I walked around Nisqually a week or two ago and thought at the time that was an unusual number. Has anyone else out there noticed unusual numbers of Rufus Hummers around? Anyway... Keep looking, there is just too much cool stuff happening out there right now!

Good Birding,

Bill Shelmerdine

Olympia

Mailto: georn1 at hotmail.com

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