Subject: Re: What is it?
Date: Nov 25 15:58:49 1994
From: Mike Patterson - mpatters at ednet1.osl.or.gov






Sounds like an Anna's Hummingbird to me.
They are regular winter residents of the Pacific Coast in the
winter, I think well into British Columbia...



>
>Does anyone have a suggestion?
>We can't identify this bird seen in a lightly wooded, shoreline area:
>A hummingbird-size, solitary perching bird with a dark triangular patch
>below the beak. The beak is long and narrow almost like a
>hummingbird's. Top of the head and back and wings are olive green.
>Chest is grey with greenish sheen. Tail is short,
>square and dark brown.
>
>Dick and Heather Russell
>
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