[EBB Sightings] the Allen's are back!

Got our first sighting of the return of a male Selasphorus to our 
hummingbird feeder this morning. He was getting in short nips before the 
resident male Anna's chased him away. It's going to be another 
entertaining Spring watching them vie for top honors. At our house, 
sharing a feeder is never considered acceptable behavior.

When we were near Flaming Gorge in the mountains above Vernal, Utah this 
past summer, we watched four different species share the feeders outside 
the restaurant windows at the lodge where we stayed. Most of the eight 
stations at each feeder was occupied at any one time. More hungry beaks 
lined up behind the feeding hummers, hovering and displaying. And more 
glittering bodies awaited their chance in the bushes and trees nearby.

Linda Ott
Martinez