There are actually two (2) male calliope hummingbirds there. I am there
now and they are both visible.
Greg Sater
On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 5:10 PM Florence Sanchez via groups.io
<sanchezucsb11...> wrote:
> Hugh beat me to the punch in posting. I too found the Calliope (and met
> Henri) this afternoon. There are numerous Pride-of-Madeira (Giant Echium)
> plants in bloom along the Arrellaga street fence, so the hummingbirds may
> stay around for a while. My experience when I had a yard was that this
> species of plant was particularly attractive to Black-chins.
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> Florence Sanchez
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> On Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 03:28:17 PM PDT, Hugh Ranson <
> <zonetail1...> wrote:
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> This afternoon the male Calliope Hummingbird continued in Alice Keck Park
> Memorial Gardens. Thanks for posting, Henri! It consistently came to the
> Pride of Madeira closest to the entrance to the park along E. Arrellaga. It
> tended to come in low and unobtrusively, hoping to evade the attentions of
> the several pugilistic Rufous Hummingbirds.
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> There was a Glaucous-winged Gull on the pond.
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> Hugh Ranson
> SB
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