ML71794961
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - X
Media notes
Adult male Allen's Hummingbird photographed by Curtis A. Marantz on 13 October 2017 along lower Arroyo Grande Creek, Oceano, San Luis Obispo County, California.
Observation details
We saw in association with the stand of red-flowering plants on the north side of the creek one adult male Allen’s Hummingbird and a second female or immature male Selasphorus. Given that the male was in the same place and behaving in the same manner as a bird that I saw here in mid-September I assume it is likely to winter here. After getting the call that the catbird had been refound we curt short our observations of these hummingbirds. The male was seen relatively well and heard giving both calls and wing-trills, but the second bird, which was also calling, was seen insufficiently to distinguish between a young male and a female. Both birds were relatively small hummingbirds with plump-bodies, a hunch-backed posture and long, tubular bills. On the male I noted and my photos show that the gorget was complete and iridescent red in color, that the crown and upper back were a deep, iridescent green, and that the rump, flanks, sides of the face were rufous. I was less sure if the scapulars were rufous or green and I never saw the tail clearly. The breast was white and I think this same color extended down the center of the belly. The second bird had a mostly white throat, but also some iridescent red in the center, lower part. This bird was more extensively white below, but also with rufous flanks. As I recall the face had some rufous but the back was green and I never clearly saw the rump or upperside of the tail.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1684 pixels x 1142 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.58 MB