VUWZ56A at prodigy.com (MR SCOTT DOWNES) wrote:

>A birding friend of mine here in Kingston-Nancy Ladenberger to be
>precise, had a mysterious hummer at her feeder several weeks ago and
>then disappeared. She described it to me as not being colored as a
>male, fairly drab nothing stood out except a single black spot on the
>throat, se estimates probably about the size of a pencil eraser end.

A hummingbird matching this description was spotted by a friend this
weekend at a feeder in the Renton Highlands - east hill above the end of
Lake Washington. I had no idea what to tell them!

Susan Collicott
camel at serv.net
Seattle, WA