[obol] Anna's hummer on snowberry, SW Portland

[Marcia Marvin]

OBOLites,

My new bird-friendly side yard contains a snowberry plant, a species  
I've never grown before.  Today a male Anna's hummingbird was  
visiting every tiny, hidden, pale pink flower.  Those flowers are so  
small I didn't even know they were there until I happened to turn  
over a branch.  His wings were beating hard enough to create wind and  
move the branches of plants below.  I had read this was a good bird  
plant, but I never imagined it would be a hummingbird attractant.  He  
ignored the fuchsia next to the snowberry as well as the feeder I put  
out there yesterday because my neighbors had hummers all over  
theirs.  Apparently, snowberry rules!

Good birding, wherever it happens.

Marcia




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The world is so full of a number of things..."
Robert Louis Stevenson