Hi everyone,



I know from the posts that most everyone else seems to have gotten their first Rufous hummer of the season some time ago, but ours just showed up very briefly this morning.? We are at 800 feet elevation and so lag the lower elevations with some of the spring arrivals.? Our flowering currants are just beginning to leaf out, but have no flowers yet.? When the bird showed up, the thermometer outside was reading 37 degrees and later in the day we had wet snow mixed in with the rain - seems to be the story of this cold spring.? I checked my records for last year, and today's bird actually arrived two days earlier than the first one last year.? In previous years, we did not have a hummingbird feeder out, so I have no data earlier than 2008.?



John Tubbs

Snoqualmie, WA

johntubbs at comcast.net

www.tubbsphoto.com