ML20257341
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Male - X
Observation details
This bird was first found 23 October by Leslie Clapp and seen subsequently by many others. We watched it feeding at a hummingbird feeder as well as perching in a crab apple. A small hummingbird with very short tail (wings beyond tail at rest). I specifically looked for and saw in the field (with scope), a white line extending from the lateral sides of the throat and below the eye extending forward and crossing through the lores, which were dark at base of bill and in front of eye, broken only by this white line. (I had first discovered this character when researching specimens to identify a bird at Cape May, NJ.) There was a small amount of rufous in the base of the outer rectrices which were tipped white. Central rectrices were shorter and blunt. We judged the bird, in the field, to be an immature male based on the throat pattern (boldness of white jaw stripe too), and tail pattern and shape (which could be examined in photographs on the back of the camera. Digiscope photos.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P5100
- ISO
- 64
- Focal length
- 15.7 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/4.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/250 sec
- Dimensions
- 2802 pixels x 1868 pixels
- Original file size
- 994.26 KB