Tyler,
Could it have been an immature Black-chinned?
Laurinda
Mountlake Terrace, WA
(just north of Seattle)
RindaA at worldnet.att.net

----- Original Message -----
From: <Turaco14 at aol.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 6:48 PM
Subject: Strange Hummingbird


> Tweeters -
>
> Our very first hummer seen actually sipping out of our feeder this year
was
> one I didn't recognize. It was about the size of an Anna's, but had a
white
> throat with a small black patch under the chin. It had a slight black
eye-
> stripe and it seemed as thought the bill was curved downward. Any ideas?
Is
> it a female or immature Anna's? It definitely wasn't a Rufous. There was
no
> red at all and the hummer seemed mostly a drab green.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tyler
>