Bill,

My two sightings of Calliope Hummingbirds in our yard in Seattle were
on 18 April 1993 and 18-21 May 1995.

Dennis


On Apr 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, tweeters-
request at mailman2.u.washington.edu wrote:

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

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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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