ML466448141

Age

Not specified

Sex

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Observation details

My Payne County bird #300 and yard bird #202. Apparently the 3rd Oklahoma record for this species. All green bodied hummer except for blue upper breast/throat and blue ear patch. Decurved long bill and white spots by eyes. Turquoise tail with darker blue band. Viewed at length and a few local birders also came and confirmed within the first hour after sighting. Note that we first spotted this bird at our backyard feeder on Friday night (Jul 8), and on Saturday the 9th, we posted the sighting publicly through local and state birding pages and the Oklahoma listserv on the ABA birding news page. We had about 60 guests see the bird throughout the day on Jul 9th and I saw the bird one more time early on Jul 10th but no other visitors saw it after that. I asked guests to not ebird their sightings until Sunday night to ensure that those who wanted to chase it would see my access directions/requests.

Technical information

Model

Canon PowerShot SX70 HS

Lens

3.8-247mm

ISO

400

Focal length

247 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/6.5

Shutter speed

1/200 sec

Dimensions

3395 pixels x 2515 pixels

Original file size

1.21 MB