There is a hummingbird just identified as a Bahama Woodstar at a feeder in Denver, PA, which is just across the border as Lancaster County. If accurate, it is the first record for the US since 1981. Pictures are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/72085905@N07/8677320268/in/photostream/, and the original post from the PA listserv is below:
At the request of Sandy Lockerman (who is away from her computer
at the moment), the previously reported hybrid hummingbird is a
Bahama Woodstar!
There is a VERY slim posibility that it is something else even rarer,
but not likely.
The homeowners have consented to visitors. They live back a stone driveway
in the woods. When coming into the area of their home please be watchful
for the children at the house and park so as not to park them in. Go to the
right of the house and the feeder is hanging in the corner of the small deck
off the back of the house. Please do not go before 9 am or after 8 pm. They
already have a guest book ready that they would like everyone to sign.
The hummer hosts are:
Delmas and Ruth Witmer
160 Mountain Road
Denver, PA 17517
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Derek Hudgins
Baltimore, MD
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