[obol] Kinglets

[Alan Contreras]

I am doing some research on Oregon populations of both Ruby-crowned Kinglet
and Brown Creeper.  I'll look into the foot color issue.  When I have enough
information in hand I'll post something.

Female Anna's Hummer using my birdbath today - hovers at one side and then
drags its body across, deeper and deeper like a pontoon plane landing, turns
around, stops briefly under the dripper and reverses the process back to the
edge, where it perches and dips its head.  An interesting process.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON
acontrer at mindspring.com


³Undue neglect, or fear, of subspecies is not only unscientific, it can
hamper rational efforts to conserve biological diversity...and to understand
bird movements.²

-Allan R. Phillips, in Why Neglect The Difficult?, Western Birds 6(3)69-86
(1975)