Re: [SBB] Breeding Rufous Hummingbirds

[Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]>]

Folks:

There are no records of Rufous Hummingbirds breeding in central 
California.  Few birds appear to breed south of Oregon, although there are 
some old nesting records from Humboldt County.  None were found breeding 
during their atlas, however.

Bill

At 05:10 PM 3/6/06, Garth Harwood wrote:
>Things were quiet, between all the storms, at the little pond below Monte 
>Bello OSP's Gate 5 today, March 6 2006. I was much cheered to see that 
>several hummingbirds have held on through everything so far, including the 
>3 inches of snow I found there last Friday morning. A surprise among them 
>was a female Selasphorus hummer collecting coyote bush down for a nest lining.
>
>I wonder, can this breeding confirmation serve as a reliable indicator 
>that this bird was an Allen's? (Are there, in fact, any breeding records 
>for Rufous Hummingbird in the county?)
>
>The only other bird of special interest today was a single Sora posing 
>sweetly atop the battered remnants of last year's cattails.
>
>--Garth Harwood
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