Yesterday peregrines, today I want help understanding Anna?s hummingbird
behavior.

This morning I saw a pair of Anna?s hummingbirds either battling or mating. My
attention was first caught by something small plummeting from about ten feet in
the air to the ground. At that point they were hidden behind a boxwood and I?m
not sure what happened but they were out of sight for only a few seconds. This
was followed by about two minutes of the two birds, one male and one female,
face to face in flight, seemingly banging their beaks and knocking their wings
against each other as they rose and fell? So it seemed like fighting but he was
also spreading his tail and flashing his colors; what was it? A female tired of
very aggressive courting?


-Mary
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