Subject: Re: Black-chinned Hummer
Date: Apr 30 09:40:45 1996
From: Christopher Hill - cehill at u.washington.edu




On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Susan Collicott 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!

Could be a female Anna's, too, as they can have that much of a throat
patch. I second Gene Hunn's suggestiont that not too much importance be
attached to the black appearance of the throat patch. The metallic
colored facial feathers of hummers look black from most angles.

Chris Hill
Everett, WA
cehill at u.washington.edu