Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:35:57 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: JAMES FELLEY Subject: Hummingbird at the Smithsonian Comments: cc: rhilton@CSA.com, laura.c-ctr.farron@faa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline An unidentified hummingbird has been seen in the Mary Ripley Garden (between the Arts and Industries Building and the Hirshhorn Museum) since Monday, Nov 17. It was described to me by Janet Draper, the gardener, and has been reported on the Virginia list (which I read via http://birdingonthe.net because I would never subscribe to such a thing). I saw it this morning on my way in to work, on the Mall entrance side of the garden. It looked like an _Archilochus_ type female, with no trace of rufous that I could see. Its beak was not very decurved, it did not have a greyish forehead, but it did twitch its tail a lot as it fed (2 votes for Ruby-throated, one for Black-chinned). I got a long look at it from the front as it perched, and brief looks at its back and tail as it fed. The dawn light was poor, but if there had been rufous, I should have been able to see it. Note that there has been a late hummingbird in the garden in fall of 2000 and 2001, and Janet says she saw one last year too. The one(s) I saw saw in 2000 and 2001 looked like this one. Jim Jim Felley Smithsonian Institution felleyj@si.edu ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================