Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Male - X
Observation details
According to Garr, present since after Thanksgiving. Relatively drab female Selasphorus with dull green upperparts, and white underparts washed with pale rufous on flanks and undertail coverts; brighter rufous axilars; sides of belly mottled with dull gray-green, possibly due to wear; brest-sides with a few brighter green feathers contrasting with clean white bib. Throat heavily stippled with bronzy-green, each feather neatly edged in white; a few (4-5?) orange-red feathers on lower edge of gorget. Tail relatively broad; r1 solid dull bluish-green with no dark tip or rufous base; r3-5 with wide white tips and relatively limited rufous bases. Primaries in molt; outer 6 pp old, inners new/growing; p10 relatively broad and blunt-tipped. Folded primaries fell slightly short of tail tip. Age/sex determined by throat pattern, broad p10, r1 pattern. Broad rectrices looked good for Rufous. Notes added January 16 - photos of this bird today by Alex Lamoreaux show a pretty clearly emarginated r2, enough to indicate Rufous Hummingbird, so I'm changing entry from Rufous/Allen's to Rufous. Notes added March 1 - This bird, previously thought to be a Rufous, was re-identified on March 1 as an immature male Broad-tailed. Retrospectively, looking at my photos from Jan, the green flank markings don't make sense for Rufous. Also, the tail shows extremely broad outer rectrices and a relatively squarish shape; r2 is about equal in length to r1-3, and r5 is only slightly shorter; Rufous should have a more graduated tail with r3 clearly longer than r2. I described the colored gorget feathers as orange-red in Jan; today with much better views they were clearly magenta, though some looks more orange-red at times, perhaps due to angle or wear?
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- Lens
- EF300mm f/4L IS USM
- ISO
- 1000
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/4.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/640 sec
- Dimensions
- 1200 pixels x 798 pixels
- Original file size
- 732.93 KB