Subject: [Tweeters] Hummingbirds in the Snow
Date: Feb 5 10:33:10 2017
From: Wally Davis - wallydavis3 at gmail.com


In East Tennessee (Oak Ridge) there aren?t any ruby throats around from late fall until spring.



Wally Davis

Snohomish



From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of festuca at comcast.net
Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 9:52 AM
To: Tweeters
Subject: [Tweeters] Hummingbirds in the Snow



Hi folks,



As I sit over my morning coffee, watching the Anna's Hummingbirds flitting through the snow to take their morning quaff of sugar water from my feeders, I was thinking that this must be a very "Western" phenomenon.



Nearly 35 years ago, I was mist-netting and banding songbirds at Malheur NWR (this was in the pre-Bundy times . . . ), and recall that the nets picked up migrating Black-chinned and Calliope hummers during snow flurries.



I was wondering if those of you who have experience Out East know whether the Ruby-throats similarly tank up on sugar water during these mornings of cold precipitation?



TIA, and cheers,

Jon. Anderson

OIyWA