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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>I suppose it has something to do with poop; but, what is the answer?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Wings,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Jan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jan Stewart<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>922 E Spruce Street<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sequim, WA 98382-3518<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>jstewart@olympus.net<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Tweeters <tweeters-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alan Roedell<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 14, 2022 11:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> creinsch <creinsch@comcast.net><br><b>Cc:</b> tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tweeters] early Rufous Hummingbirds, Tom Lamb, Dixie,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>No, why shouldn't a sailor look up at the sky?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Alan, Seattle <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 5:07 PM creinsch <<a href="mailto:creinsch@comcast.net">creinsch@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>For the last 22 years we have had only occasional Rufous in the yard: <br>one or two in late March, and maybe three or four in August. None <br>stayed for more than a day.<br><br>This year has been very different, and we are unsure why. There were <br>several immature Rufous in June, and then on August 1st three arrived <br>and stayed for a little over four days. The fighting with the Anna's was <br>ferocious, and the Anna's eventually went into hiding. Since then at <br>least one Rufous appears every couple of days, and the fighting <br>(bickering) resumes.<br><br>Are the weather/climate and fires up North accelerating the migration? <br>I have wondered for sometime if some Rufous are completing their <br>Northern migration here, and the immature are actually fledging here. <br>Is there any evidence of that?<br><br>And I have a question for anyone who remembers Tom Lamb of Dixie (NE of <br>Walla Walla): Tom had house low in the foothills, where over the years <br>he had assembled something like 65 hummingbird feeders around his <br>property. During Spring and Fall migrations the place was crazy with <br>Rufous, Black Chinned, and Calliope, with lots of noise from the <br>quarreling birds and visitors having close-up encounters. Tom passed <br>away in 2014.<br><br>The question: Does anyone here remember Tom's joke about why a sailor <br>should not look up (toward the sky)?<br><br>Chuck Reinsch<br>Magnolia, Seattle<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tweeters mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">Tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters" target="_blank">http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>