There was also a report to Ebird recently of a male and female Anna's seen
at Windy Point campground along HWY 12 in Yakima County. A friend of mine
lives near there and had an adult male last summer at her feeder as well as
what looked like and adult female and immature that I personally saw in July
(if I remember the month correctly). I wager that at some point, breeding
will probably be confirmed. At least now, I feel that it is a good
probability we may have Anna's at least attempting to breed.



Jeff Kozma



Yakima



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[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Scott
Downes
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 8:33 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] re: Range Expansion for Anna's Hummingbird



Here in Yakima County they used to be fairly notable 8-10 years ago, with
only a few occurring each fall. The records are certainly increasing with it
being a somewhat regular bird in Yakima and the east slopes of the Cascades
in summer/fall dispersal for the past couple of years. They have also been
appearing sooner with June sightings now occurring in the county of both
adults and juveniles. A few birds do survive the winter (feeder assisted)
and stick around through early spring. To my knowledge they have not been
documented as a breeder in Yakima County, but with spring sightings of
adults it is possible this has occurred and just not been documented yet.



Scott Downes

downess at charter.net <mailto:downess at charter.net>

Yakima WA