No, why shouldn't a sailor look up at the sky?
Alan, Seattle
On Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 5:07 PM creinsch <
creinsch at comcast.net> wrote:
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For the last 22 years we have had only occasional Rufous in the yard:
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one or two in late March, and maybe three or four in August. None
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stayed for more than a day.
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This year has been very different, and we are unsure why. There were
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several immature Rufous in June, and then on August 1st three arrived
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and stayed for a little over four days. The fighting with the Anna's was
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ferocious, and the Anna's eventually went into hiding. Since then at
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least one Rufous appears every couple of days, and the fighting
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(bickering) resumes.
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Are the weather/climate and fires up North accelerating the migration?
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I have wondered for sometime if some Rufous are completing their
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Northern migration here, and the immature are actually fledging here.
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Is there any evidence of that?
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And I have a question for anyone who remembers Tom Lamb of Dixie (NE of
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Walla Walla): Tom had house low in the foothills, where over the years
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he had assembled something like 65 hummingbird feeders around his
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property. During Spring and Fall migrations the place was crazy with
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Rufous, Black Chinned, and Calliope, with lots of noise from the
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quarreling birds and visitors having close-up encounters. Tom passed
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away in 2014.
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The question: Does anyone here remember Tom's joke about why a sailor
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should not look up (toward the sky)?
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Chuck Reinsch
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Magnolia, Seattle
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