Sighting

While I waited for my coffee to brew this morning, I looked out the front window and saw two hummingbirds at my Honeysuckle Arbor. By the time I’d gone upstairs to grab my camera, bee-line it back down to the front door, the illusory hummers had flittered away.

The Pacific North West has 6 regular species of hummingbirds:

Anna‘s ( Calypte anna ) - Willamette Valley and Coast
Allen‘s (Selasphorus sasin) - Southern Oregon Coast
Black-chinned (Archilochus alexandri) - Northeast Oregon
Broad-tailed (Selasphorus platycercus) - Mountains of extreme Northeast and Southeast Oregon
Calliope (Stellula calliope) - Cascade and Wallowa Mountains
Rufous (Selasphorus rufus) - mountains, but widespread west of the Cascades

The Anna's hummingbird is a year round resident, and probably what I saw, while the Rufous, Calliope, and Black-chinned occur in migration.

I’ll have to keep an eye on the Honeysuckle from now on.

Maybe I need a camera in every room.

Anna’s hummingbird photo
by Greg Gillson
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