Date: 9/19/12 2:17 pm
From: <keyweststyle2001...>
Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Fwd: Puzzling Hummer in Robert E. Lee Park


We may be looking at two different hummingbirds at robert e lee park. The one leo saw was behind davey tree expert building on lakeside drive, best to parl at light rail lot and walk toward the road. The one the bird walk group saw was we think is a female/immature broad-billed. It was along boardwalk trail in area where two benches on right overlook open area and also seen on left side. Same yellow flowers types. Please get camera ready if plan to go tomorrow. - Kevin Graff.
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From: Phil Davis <pdavis...>
Sender: <mdbirding...>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:10:57
To: MDbirding<mdbirding...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Fwd: Puzzling Hummer in Robert E. Lee Park

MD Birding:

Just received this intriguing report from Leo Weigant ...

Phil


>From: Leo Weigant <hawkowl...>
>Subject: Puzzling Hummer in Robert E. Lee Park
>Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:06:14 -0400
>To: Phil Davis <pdavis...>
>
>Phil, I'm sending this to you because I had trouble posting to MDBird
>Group and have to leave right now for the evening. If you could post it
>"to All" for me, I would appreiate it. That way perhaps some others
>might have a chance to check it out.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Leo
>
>I hadn't had a chance to look for this bird (traveling) but made my way
> there this afternoon, betw. 1:30 - 2:00 PM.
>
>After walking around the Stump Dump site for some time and seeing little
>I was thinking about leaving when I noticed movement nearby in the
>yellow-orange blossoms in the vine cover beside the road,
>practically at my feet.
>
>At first I had only glimpses, enough to confirm that it was definitely
>larger than a Ruby-throat, with no red on the face or throat, and
>dark green on the back, cap, wings, and rump. One pause while it looked
>straight at me confirmed that the throat was gray, with faint, parallel,
>vertical striping under the chin, shading into a plain, vaguely mottled
>belly. It also showed a dark cheek under the eye. This head-on
>glimpse also showed white triangular patch behind the eye which
>trailed irregularly away behind it for a few millimeters.
>This sighting was very near, within 15 feet easily, but the bird moved
>on before I could focus on it as well as later on.
>
>I would not have been so definite about details from just that view, but
>with patience I was able to get several more, and better-focused,
>views of profile, back, and the tail as it moved around on the slope
>below me -- up to 25 yards away before disappearing.
>
>The tail definitely had a dark space below the green rump, and white
>corners on the outer two (at least) tail feathers -- both top and bottom.
>It seemed slightly notched, but I'd have liked a better angle on that.
>
>The above was written without checking any reference books (and, yes,
>I made a drawing, Phil), but when I did turn to my big Sibley's and the
>Petersen Guide to Hummingbirds, I was able to set aside various
>candidates: It lacked any red (as I'd seen face-to-face on an Anna's
>in California last week) on the throat nor any white above the eye.
>Its bill showed no curve (like a black-chinned) and it showed no buffy
>coloring like a selasphorus. I'd been dubious of reports of its size
>for I've seen many Magnificent Hummers in AZ, some of them
>a bit larger than this one, but the photos and secifications on
>Magnificent hummers in Peterson's Giude set the size range as
>4.5" - 5.25" which would make smaller ones only 3/4" larger
>than large Ruby-throats, so I began to think that Magnificent is more
>likely than my first skeptical responses to early reports and am submitting
>this as "Magnificent Hummingbird."

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MD/DC Records Committee
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Davidsonville, Maryland 21035 USA
301-261-0184
mailto:<PDavis...>

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