ML359610001

Age

Not specified

Sex

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Observation details

First seen as a black hummingbird, perched on a budding Gambel's Oak, over the stream. When I put my Steiner 10 x 50's on it, I saw turquoise colored forget and I immediately thought Magnificent, just like the ones seen near Kohl's Ranch in wet stream canyons running south of the Mongollon Rim. I watched it for 2-3 minutes, snapping a few diagnostic photos thru my iPhone and binoculars. That was luck, because it was backlit thru a cloudy sky. My notes I took seven minutes to write when it flew away follow: Walked up reek on the south side from the bridge for the Old Hatchery Trail, to where someone recently chopped an oak tree down. (5 inch dbh). I looked up and saw an all black hummingbird perched above the creek and below me in an unleaded oak. It was facing me. Instead of a red throat like Anna's, it was turquoise!!! All black bill. Whit arc atop eye, and short white line below they're. A little white patch below shoulder in front of the folded wing.the top of head black feathers raised a bit sort of angular a times instead of round. The belly had turquoise blended with black and white. A bit of brown around the belly showed up. I took a few pics and video. I watched it fly off once. It's pointy wings obvious on take-off shaped like a swift's as it stretched them, then took off. Back lit tail notched. I think tail was longer than folded wings. No sun, cloudy. Saw it on two over he's. No interaction I with Broad-tailed hummingbirds t. Thought I heard it after landing on second perch-Wheu. Whit. Whit. Wheu. Wheu. Wheu.
Lifer for me. I may have seen one at Southwest Research Station in the Chiricahuas with Sherry Williamson.

Technical information

Model

iPhone 5s

Lens

iPhone 5s back camera 4.15mm f/2.2

ISO

40

Focal length

4.2 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/2.2

Shutter speed

1/40 sec

Dimensions

3264 pixels x 2448 pixels

Original file size

772.21 KB