[obol] Anna's Hummer display flight in Eugene

[Lars and Gail Norgren]

       I thought I saw nest material in
the beak of a female Anna's late last week
in west Portland. Several people have commented
on the unusually early singing of Song Sparrows.
I saw fully open catkins ("pussy willows")on a
willow just off Hwy 6(Tillamook Jct of Hwy 26)
this weekend. I have seen this often on the
lower Coquille River in early December, but
this deep into NW Oregon, and no heat island
either. The floor of the Tualitin Valley has
had the coldest temperatures in Washington Co
for several weeks. Given that the photoperiod
is still growing shorter, I'm at a bit of a loss.
Lars Norgren MANNING OREGON
On Dec 5, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Dan Heyerly wrote:

>
> Obolinks,
>  
> Let me preface this message by saying it is December 5, 2006, between 
> 40 and 50-degrees (Fahrenheit) outside, and the sun is out.
>  
> I am located in downtown Eugene on the 4th floor of an office 
> building, and I look north toward Skinner Butte, the famous birding 
> site visited by many birders especially in spring and fall. I can see 
> a couple of tree tops about ½ block away as they peek over the Smith 
> Family Bookstore building just across the alley.
>  
> An Anna’s Hummingbird is doing display flights over one of those trees 
> as I write this! My window is closed so I cannot hear the “TINK” at 
> the bottom of the flight.
>  
> Crazy!
>  
> Dan Heyerly
> Eugene
>  
>  
>
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