Date: 08/27/2010

Number: 1

An immature male rufous just dropped by, hovering right outside my office window. He did not visit the feeder, but a young male Anna's, who followed in his wake, did.

Quite a few hummers are still hanging out in the garden, flitting between the feeders and the remaining flowers (mainly fuchsia, butterfly bush, and honeysuckle). They also visit the hydrangeas and pelargoniums but not, as far as I can tell, to sip nectar, but to catch one of the many small insects hanging out on or near the florets, just like they visited camellia flowers earlier in the year with bugs not nectar on their minds.

The male rufous appear to have left (though I remember some latecomers in September of last year) but the numbers of female rufous and female and male Anna's appear to be undiminished. I have, of course, been unable to do a precise count, but it looks like we have more young Anna's and rufous of both sexes than we had in previous years.

I have taken photos but I'm not happy with their quality. That's because I have not had the time to "stalk" the hummers but take photos through my well-shaded office window as I work at the computer. But never mind the quality, I take them merely as records to prove to myself, a few years hence, that yes, indeed, we still had hummers at this time of year.

Bellingham, WA

Latitude: 48.7 Longitude: -122.5

Observed by: John
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