I have couple of Anna's at my feeders which I alternate so that the sugar
solution stays ice free. While I was bringing a feeder in a bird came
zooming up and started feeding while I was holding the feeder in my hand.
Either the Hummer was fearless or desperately hungry. Bob Johnston,
University Place
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dianna Moore" <dlmoor2 at coastaccess.com>
To: <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:38 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] cold-weather bird story


> Well, after all the posts about the Anna's I had the first real fighting
> this morning...26 degrees, two feeders out...4 adult males battling it out
> over the four-port glass bottle feeder under the eaves in the weak sun.
> They
> were so intent on driving one another out that no feeding was going on & I
> was concerned about all that energy expended. They finally broke and all
> got
> on a port and sucked like crazy for a bit, then off they went again on the
> next round...it was crazy!
>