<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Our hummers are scarce too. Happens every year. Only the females have anything to do with nesting, so they can’t leave the nest very often. When they do, they want to spend the least amount of time away, so they go for the closest food source, and there are some things in bloom already, so they may be surviving on that. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jill <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 10, 2023, at 8:35 AM, Lynn Wohlers <<a href="mailto:wohlers13@gmail.com" class="">wohlers13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Nelson, we're in Anacortes, too, and though I don't pay the closest attention to numbers or gender, we've had at least one Anna's at the feeder consistently for a while now. Red-flowering currant is coming out, Oso berry is about to bloom, and insects are increasing. Maybe they're adding variety to their diet. :-)<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 10:22 PM Tom Benedict <<a href="mailto:benedict.t@comcast.net" class="">benedict.t@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Our Anna's have been very scarce the past couple of weeks. Until now they have been extremely reliable visitors to hour nectar feeders. I suspect they are nesting and getting their sustenance elsewhere. I seem to recall this happening in previous years too.<br class="">
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> On Mar 9, 2023, at 22:17, Nelson Briefer <<a href="mailto:nreiferb@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">nreiferb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> Hummers - two hummers - are not present at my feeder. I fear something has happened. Do hummers get the virus that may kill them? I will contact some neighbors who have feeders. Nelson Briefer - Anacortes. _______________________________________________<br class="">
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