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Offers an account of a female Rufous hummingbird that found itself thousands of miles from its home and sought a winter refuge in the author's home in upstate New York
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After having a hummingbird named Squeak in her house for the 1988-1989 winter, Arnette Heidcamp was overjoyed to be visited by another hummingbird. This time it was a female, an off-course rufous hummingbird, who had flown all the way from the West Coast to Arnette's house in Saugerties, New York. She named the bird Rosie. As Squeak had done previously, Rosie spent the winter of 1993-1994 in the flower-filled sunroom. Here Arnette shot seventy-five full-color endearing photographs of her welcomed guest's nightly and daily activities: sleeping, waking up, bathing, eating, preening, and visiting all the lovely flowers that so attracted Rosie.
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