mae@weitek.UUCP (Mike Ekberg) (08/07/85)
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