Thanks to Su Snyder and Cheryl Harner for directions.  I arrived at about 4:00 pm on a rainy and dim afternoon.  After about 15 minutes of waiting the female Rufous Hummingbird arrived and sat on a wire trellis in the protected corner garden, and then flew in to the feeder and fed about five times.  Then it left briefly and was back again for another feeding foray.  When it left the feeder, I found it perched on the very top of an apple tree in the back yard.  It's amazing how tough these little birds are-still hanging around in such dreary cold weather.  However, that's what the weather is like where they nest in the northwest of USA!
Jay

Jay G. Lehman
Cincinnati, OH
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