ID-2 Please: Same HB with a green Cardboard BG Shot today GoldwingerTX wrote: Shot today in SE Houston, TX Help with ID Please Thanks...

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ID-2 Please

Aug 4, 2018 14:42:04 #

old man 88 Loc: Palmview, TX when not on road

Same HB with a green Cardboard BG

Shot today

GoldwingerTX wrote:
Shot today in SE Houston, TX

Help with ID Please

Thanks

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Aug 4, 2018 15:02:13 #

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

Without digging real deep, my first guess would be a female Anna.

Aug 4, 2018 15:19:16 #

vonzip Loc: cape cod

I would think a female ruby. Mine are the spitting image of this one. vz

Aug 4, 2018 15:35:54 #

danniepolley

Very nice

Aug 4, 2018 15:45:02 #

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I would go with female Ruby in your location.

Look here:

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-throated_Hummingbird/id

I use this site a lot. One very nice feature is if you scroll down they have similar birds and you can click and got to that birds site and then with back button return to where you started.

It does kind of look like a female Anna's (we have them where I live) but they are a West Coast bird, closest to you are some ??? sightings in north central Mexico. So unless you can contact a local bird watchers group in Houston to help I would go with the female Ruby.

Aug 4, 2018 16:31:12 #

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

GoldwingerTX wrote:

Same HB with a green Cardboard BG

Shot today

GoldwingerTX wrote:
Shot today in SE Houston, TX

Help with ID Please

Thanks

Lovely.

Aug 4, 2018 19:16:30 #

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

robertjerl wrote:

I would go with female Ruby in your location.......

You are correct.
The females sure look alike but their ranges are very different. Anna's make it into extreme west Texas occasionally. This is on the Gulf Coast.

Aug 5, 2018 14:20:51 #

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

GoldwingerTX wrote:

Same HB with a green Cardboard BG

Shot today

GoldwingerTX wrote:
Shot today in SE Houston, TX

Help with ID Please

Thanks

Aug 5, 2018 16:12:57 #

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

Can't ID it, but this is a very good shot, GoldwingerTX!

Aug 5, 2018 16:27:27 #

safeman

A really hard call- I hate female/juvenile hummingbirds. I am going to go with a Black-chinned Hummingbird for the following reasons: I would expect a greener crown an a Ruby. Thanks to the stop action on the photograph we can see something that would never be available in the field, the wing tips are rounded on this bird and would be sharper on a Ruby.

Aug 5, 2018 16:33:37 #

safeman

safeman wrote:

Addition to the above post. Look at the "Ruby-throated Hummingbird Taking Off" postit clearly illustrates the difference in wing shape.

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