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

[Barbara J. Combs]

I've seen hummingbirds at my snowberry plants many times.  I had no idea
that they would even be able to find these small flowers, let alone find
some nutrition in them.

Barbara Combs  obie '70
Eugene, Oregon

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Marcia Marvin wrote:

> 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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