Could someone offer up/get a feeder and put it up near the stump dump?
Dan Haas
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On Sep 19, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Phil Davis <pdavis...> wrote:
> MD Birding:
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> 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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