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A BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD,topcenter, rufous hummingbird,right,
and Anna's hummingbird, center rear linger in the top spray of a
Photo courtesy of Beth Kingsley Hawkins
three-tiered Mexican fountain. Hummingbirds are believed to have
evolved in the rainforest, makingthem natural lovers of water.
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When you decide you want
• to attract hummingbirds to your
home, odds are you first think
of planting their favorite nectar-
rich flowers and/or putting out
feeders filled with a mixture of
sugar and water. These ae good
choices: Since hummers have to
eat frequently, you're making it
attractive for them to visit you.
Few realize that providing
water features in which they
can bathe can also endear them
to you -- to the point that a-
hummer will often defend its
bathing facility as strongly as
a feeder. Every hummingbird
knows that eating nectar is a
sticky business, with nectar often
striking their chest in tiny drop-
lets as they withdraw :their beak
from a flower blossom or feeder
port. This occasionally .shows in
.sharp, high-speed photographs.
And every hummingbird seems
to know that it is essential that
these deposits of nectar be
removed regularly.
Hummingbirds are believed
I 0000ItYour Hummingbird Connection% Dr. H i Ross Hawkins I
by scientists to have evolved
in the rain forests of South
America, so love of water comes
naturally to them.
Several years ago, an injured
hummingbird in Alaska was
taken to a raptor rehabilitation
facility there. Unfortunately, the
staff did not know of the need to
keep the chest feathers clean. As
a result, the drippings of nectar
that occurred during feeding
actually caused the chest
feathers to fall out. At this point
they sought help and arranged
to have the bird transported to
an experienced hummer reha-
bilitator in San Diego.
Alaska-Airlines managed to
receive good PR from the exer-
cise, inviting the local TV station
to witness the hummer's aival
and awarding the hummer
a Frequent Flyer pass. The
Christmas production
auditions are Nov. 1
bird survived.
In addition to making use of
a fountain's spray or flow over
its edges, I have seen hummers
bathe in other ways:
Itby perching in very shallow
water flowing over a flat rock
• by hovering in the spray of
a garden hose
• by diving into a shallow
[6 to 12-inch] moving stream,
rising out quickly, and repeating
the movement as many as 50 to
60 times.
• by "leaf-bathing:" They
fly along the surface of a large
leaf, dragging their body across
droplets of dew or rain.
I have also seen small, domed
fountains that have, water
bubbling out of a large hole at
the top. The hummers some-
times come just to drink the
water, but also to bathe if they
can find an edge to grasp with
their tiny feet.
Hummers will love a water
feature with a spray, or a bird
bath that has water flowing over
a surface or edge, although it
seems to take longer for them
to discover water features than
new feeders. In addition, you
will have fun as you sip yopr
early morning coffee or tea in
a chair placed just a few yards
from the water feature. Nothing
like a nice "bird and breakfast."
The Hummingbird Friends
discussion grou p meets the third
Thursday of every month, noon
to 1 p.m., at Sedona Winds,
• ,405 Jacks Canyon Road. Call
284-2251 for details.
H. Ross Hawkins, Ph,D.,
is the founder and executive
director of the Hummingbird
Society, a nonprofit organiza-
tion teaching about humming-
birds and working internation-
ally to prevent extinctions. The
society's headquarters are in
Sedona.
Sedona's real e,;l:zat(." g,lass is
half full and ,t llal ! emptv
Doom and gloom can become a self-fulfilling
reality, or as Wayne Dyer, Ph.D., says, "Believe it
and you'll see it." So, being an obsessive collector
of statistics, I decided to review my Sedona
Multiple Listing Service data going all the way
back to 1986 to see if things were really as bad as
some people said they were.
Surprise -- If you look just at the dollar
volume of sold properties, this year is
shaping up to be the ninth-best year since
the mid-1980s and better than anything
prior to the year 2000. Furthermore, if you
look at the number of properties projected
to close this year -- which I calculated by
taking the monthly average year to date
and multiplying by 12 -- then this will be
the best year since 2005.
And here is more good news. The inven-
tory of homes in Sedona's largest and most Real Estate
active price range, that under $400,000, is Bulletin.
at or close to a six-month supply, which is
the sign of a balanced market. Sellers who ANDRF w
are correctly priced can now hold pretty
firm when they get an offer and some of BR[:ARLFY
them are even getting multiple offers. .. •
So, if the inventory in this segment
drops much further, then the next step will
be modest price increases. Furthermore, a tight-
ening of supply at the bottom usually encourages
buyers to look in higher price ranges to satisfy
their housing needs and that in turn reduces the
inventory level in those price ranges and so the
start of a new cycle in real estate begins.
As we look at the higher-priced market segments,
Open auditions for the
Pilgrimage to Bethlehem will
be held Monday, Nov. 1, at
6:30 p.m, at Wayside Bible
Chapel, in Uptown. Singers,
dancers and actors are
welcome.
This free annual Sedona
community Christmas produc-
tionis produced by Potter's
Hand Productions Inc., a
faith-based community theater
company. Performances are
Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
Dec. 17, 18 and 19, at Tequa
Marketplace in the Village of
Oak Creek, and will feature a
new concert. Past productions
have drawn audiences of up to
1,500 people over the three-
day w.eekend.
All costumes, props, and
sets are provided by PHE and
most acting rehearsals will
be Sunday afternoons begin-
ning Nov. 14 from 2 to 4 p.m.
with a break for Thanksgiving
weekend. Singers' rehearsals
are primarily held at Wayside
Bible Chapel on Monday
nights, beginning Nov. 8, from
6:30 to 8:15 p.m. Prior stage
experience is not required, and
the production needs adults,
children, and families of all
ages.
For details of the rehearsal
schedule or other questions,
call Jane at 300-3968.
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the current, available inventory does increase until
there is an eight-year supply of homes available
over $1.5 million. However, the good news here
is that one year ago it was almost impossible to
get a loan over $750,000 -- which meant only
cash buyers could buy -- and now there is a wide
range of lenders in the "jumbo" market. This has
already started to attract buyers back into
the upper end and increase unit sales.
So why are people worried about the
market? The principal reason is that values
have fallen up to 50 percent in the last few
years and caused many people to lose their
homes and/or a lot of equity. This kind
of hardship is difficult to deal with, on
a personal level as well as on a national
economic level. However, I don't believe
the price levels of a few years ago are
coming back anytime in the next 10 years.
As a result, we need to adjust to this new
reality of lower prices and start to move
on with our lives rather than hoping for a
return to boom times. The good news is
that when you do sell at these lower prices,
you can go out and buy a new home at an
equally reduced price.
So, if you've been putting your life on
hold waiting for prices to rebound to 2005 levels,
it's going to be a long wait. Better in my opinion
to accept prices the way they are and plan accord-
ingly. The glass is half full, not half empty.
Real Estate Bulletin, written this week by
Andrew Brearley, appears the last Friday of every
month in the Sedona Red Rock News.
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