[Tweeters] Anna’s on Apples

[Mark Borden via Tweeters]

Dear tweeters,

I always wondered how the Anna’s hummingbirds could find enough food in the frozen and cold winter. We have about 500 apple trees and there are about 10 within view of our kitchen window. Every year flickers (and starlings) feed on the remaining apples that hang from the trees, and some rainwater or juice, likely a mixture of both collects in the holes that are left. Hummingbirds then regularly visit those, drinking the “juice.”

When I first saw it, I took a few videos if anyone is interested.

Mark Borden
Coupeville WA
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> It?s January, so how can there be swallow at Deer Lagoon on Whidbey Island? But on this clear crisp morning?there they were. Several dozen of both barn and northern rough-winged working over the water and along edges of reeds. Close up flybys for me and other birders onsite. Have they been reported elsewhere in the Puget Sound Basin this early in winter?

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> There was a large group of Barn Swallows over at the sewage lagoons in

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>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 1:21?PM via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>

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>> It?s January, so how can there be swallow at Deer Lagoon on Whidbey

>> Island? But on this clear crisp morning?there they were. Several dozen of

>> both barn and northern rough-winged working over the water and along edges

>> of reeds. Close up flybys for me and other birders onsite. Have they been

>> reported elsewhere in the Puget Sound Basin this early in winter?

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> Barn Swallows and Tree Swallows have been recorded in the Puget Trough in

> January in prior warmer-than-average winters.

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>> It?s January, so how can there be swallow at Deer Lagoon on Whidbey

>> Island? But on this clear crisp morning?there they were. Several dozen of

>> both barn and northern rough-winged working over the water and along edges

>> of reeds. Close up flybys for me and other birders onsite. Have they been

>> reported elsewhere in the Puget Sound Basin this early in winter?

>> David Armstrong

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> As a former fish and wildlife commissioner, I appreciate Doug's recognition of the hard work by WDFW staff to mitigate and minimize wildlife user conflict and restore critical habitat. (I've never seen a wetlands restoration that was pretty in its early phases.)

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> Many may not like hunting but over my years as a commissioner, I watched our tendency to translate our dislike of certain social and cultural practices to dislike of the practitioners and to express our disdain with charges of bad or illegal behavior to characterize the group. I don't like it when others characterize us birders by our bad behaviors like trespassing, disrespecting privacy, or ignorant intrusion on tribal sovereignty. To be licensed, hunters must pass hunter education, including major focus on fair chase ethics and safety. As a group, I find hunters take both issues seriously. Hunters also contribute mightily to wildlife conservation. During volunteer habitat restoration efforts, I'm more often rubbing shoulders with bird hunters than birders.

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> Thank you, Kris, for your question and initiation of the thread. When I bird in game units during firearm hunting seasons, I use an extra precaution and wear hunter pink or orange. A cap does the trick. Such clothing is required of hunters during big game modern firearm seasons but not seasons without overlap. While perhaps not the best birding garb, I choose it as a good safety practice.

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> Good birding,

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> Kim Marie Thorburn, MD, MPH

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> Thank you Kim!  Great stuff.  I so appreciate your hard work!  

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>> On Jan 20, 2025, at 7:51?PM, Kim Thorburn via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:

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>> As a former fish and wildlife commissioner, I appreciate Doug's recognition of the hard work by WDFW staff to mitigate and minimize wildlife user conflict and restore critical habitat. (I've never seen a wetlands restoration that was pretty in its early phases.)

>> 

>> Many may not like hunting but over my years as a commissioner, I watched our tendency to translate our dislike of certain social and cultural practices to dislike of the practitioners and to express our disdain with charges of bad or illegal behavior to characterize the group. I don't like it when others characterize us birders by our bad behaviors like trespassing, disrespecting privacy, or ignorant intrusion on tribal sovereignty. To be licensed, hunters must pass hunter education, including major focus on fair chase ethics and safety. As a group, I find hunters take both issues seriously. Hunters also contribute mightily to wildlife conservation. During volunteer habitat restoration efforts, I'm more often rubbing shoulders with bird hunters than birders.

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>> Thank you, Kris, for your question and initiation of the thread. When I bird in game units during firearm hunting seasons, I use an extra precaution and wear hunter pink or orange. A cap does the trick. Such clothing is required of hunters during big game modern firearm seasons but not seasons without overlap. While perhaps not the best birding garb, I choose it as a good safety practice.

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>> Good birding,

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>> Kim

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>> Kim Marie Thorburn, MD, MPH

>> Spokane, WA

>> (509) 465-3025

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> Test.

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> Tweets,

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> As requested, here are recent Times responses about unleashed dogs in parks.? The nearest mention to birds I found was "wildlife."? I'm surprised most of the complaints seem to be about non-wildlife impacts.?

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> https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-residents-ask-when-did-this-become-a-dog-park/

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> https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/dogs-belong-in-seattle-but-not-off-leash-in-city-parks-and-beaches/

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> Finally got my year House Sparrows yesterday (and Harlequin Ducks).

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> Good birding,

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> Hi Tweets,  

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> Freezing temps and sunny days in January.  Two trees in the orchard still have apples on them (we call them winter apples) ,   and they regularly attract the usual visitors this time of year,  Flickers,  Pileated Woodpeckers, Robins, Varied Thrush,  to name a few.   For the first time,  twice over past few days, we?ve seen an Anna?s hummingbird also making visits to the apples that have been  pecked open by the aforementioned species.   Makes sense in that the apples are the only red in the garden this time of year.      

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> I know little to nothing about hummers,  but assume it to be Anna?s based on the eBird maps.   

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> Stan Kostka

> Arlington WA

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