Date: 03/29/2009

Number: 1

I know from the posts that most everyone else seems to have gotten their
first
Rufous hummer of the season some time ago, but ours just showed up very
briefly
this morning. We are at 800 feet elevation and so lag the lower
elevations
with some of the spring arrivals. Our flowering currants are just
beginning
to leaf out, but have no flowers yet. When the bird showed up, the
thermometer outside was reading 37 degrees and later in the day we had
wet snow
mixed in with the rain - seems to be the story of this cold spring.
I checked
my records for last year, and today's bird actually arrived two days
earlier
than the first one last year. In previous years, we did not have a
hummingbird feeder out, so I have no data earlier than 2008.

Snoqualmie, WA

Latitude: 47.6 Longitude: -121.7

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