[obol] Anna's Hummer display flight in Eugene

[Alan Contreras]

Anna's have been found on nests in January in the Medford area.

-- 
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)


> From: DJLauten and KACastelein <deweysage at verizon.net>
> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:47:43 -0800
> To: Dan Heyerly <dan at heyerly.com>
> Cc: obol <obol at lists.orst.edu>
> Subject: Re: [obol] Anna's Hummer display flight in Eugene
> 
> Anna's Hummers have been displaying in our yard (Bandon, Coos Cty) since
> about Sept, when the Selasphorus are gone.  They sing incessently every
> day, and display fairly regularly.  There are at least 2 males plus
> females here.  I suspect they may breed in winter.
> 
> Cheers
> Dave Lauten
> Bandon OR
> deweysage at verizon.net
> 
> 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 1Ž2 block away as they peek over the Smith Family
>> Bookstore building just across the alley.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> An Anna¹s Hummingbird is doing display flights over one of those trees
>> as I write this! My window is closed so I cannot hear the ³TINK² at the
>> bottom of the flight.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Crazy!
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Dan Heyerly
>> 
>> Eugene
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>  
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>> 
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