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From: mae@weitek.UUCP (Mike Ekberg)
Newsgroups: net.rec.birds
Subject: re:hummer
Message-ID: <251@weitek.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 16:13:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 16:13:29 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 03:56:39 EDT
Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca.
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Keywords: flora and avians

I too like reading net.rec.birds although I have never posted to his group.

That said, onto hummers!

We seem to have an Anna's hummingbird that regularly visits our yard. We saw
a lot of him in the spring when a bush with red flowers( i think podacarpus?)
was in bloom. After the bloom, he quit coming by.

However, last month we planted some salvia(sage) with purple/red flowers and
he/she is now back. One of his favorite places to light is on top of a dead
limb on the top of a walnut tree. He also seems to like flying through the
spray of sprinklers. 

I was lying on our deck once and looked up to see him humming about 6 inches
from my face. It was hard to tell which of us was more curious about the
other.

I have seen him near our plum tree, which has deep purple plums. Do they
eat plums?

Mike