Different Looking Hummingbird
Aug 18, 2019 15:33:45 #
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Bob, FYI if you right click on one of the images a Bing search option comes up. Most of the matching images are the Rufus on the other posts.
Aug 18, 2019 18:31:54 #
wdross wrote:
I would guess an immature Rufous Hummingbird. It looks like it is just coming into its adult plumage. They tend to be more aggressive than Broadtails and Ruby Throated and will chase other hummers away from "their" hummingbird feeder. They are the most fearless animal pound for pound. Of course, they don't even come close to a pound.
You are with the majority. I didn't think of the Rufous because I had never IDd one in my yard before.
Aug 18, 2019 18:36:49 #
lamiaceae wrote:
I'd guess Young Rufous also. I know it is not an ... (show quote)
Thanks, yes lots of guides and the Rufous isn't in the one for my local area because we are on the border of their migration and wintering area - but there is a small year round area west of me along the coast, being able to fly the little darlings have a habit of not conforming to our maps of where they should be.
Aug 18, 2019 18:44:29 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Nice shots. I don't see them perching very often.
Thanks, they need to rest just like all other birds, they will hover to feed but perches are a nice extra on the feeders.
This one is on a cable of one of those dog lease trolley lines I put up years ago when our daughter was having two or three backyard pool parties a year for her friends and the gate was constantly being opened. Then our two little dogs discovered "new friends who will give us treats" and didn't need the line anymore. They stayed in the yard just because that is where the mother lode of treats was. Being lazy I just tied the loose ends to the old swing set and created even more perches for the birds instead of taking it down.
Aug 18, 2019 18:44:50 #
Aug 18, 2019 18:45:11 #
fbeaston wrote:
Wonderful shots as usual. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much.
Aug 18, 2019 18:48:18 #
raymondh wrote:
Take your time on the PP - these are plenty fine as they are!
I will take my time, I am lazy after all. The main thing is the noise and "grainyness" but this is a small hummer and even with a 400 mm on a crop sensor at 20'-25' these are still radical crops.
Aug 18, 2019 18:48:35 #
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Aug 18, 2019 18:49:54 #
Blair Shaw Jr wrote:
Robert ..........it's a beauty and the little guy in his Tuxedo-all-ready -to-go. Wonderful set.
thanks, the voting is for it being a juvie just getting its adult feathers/colors
Aug 18, 2019 18:50:13 #
Aug 18, 2019 18:51:11 #
mffox wrote:
Cant tell you what it is, but your shots are beautiful. Nice work.
Most of the birder types here and on three Face Book groups vote for immature Rufous.
Aug 18, 2019 18:51:38 #
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