I have posted photos of this bird on this webpage. It was getting late in
the day when the photos were taken threw a scope.
http://home.pacifier.com/~birder/chummingbird.html

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_/_)_ Sherry Hagen
/ Vancouver, WA
littlebirder at netzero.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Stewart Wechsler
To: BjorkmanTE at aol.com ; tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 8:43 PM
Subject: RE: Costa's Hummingbird back at feeder


Eric and Tweeters,

How does one distinguish a female Costa's from a Black-chinned or Anna's. I
checked my 3 books (Robbins, Peterson and Stokes) and could not see how to
distinguish them.

Stewart Wechsler
West Seattle
mailto:ecostewart at quidnunc.net
-----Original Message-----
From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu
[mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of BjorkmanTE at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 7:06 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Costa's Hummingbird back at feeder



After a few day hiatus, the female Costa's Hummingbird has returned to our
feeder. Ken Knittle and Marv Breece (all the way from Seattle) stopped by to
see it, and in the middle of my wife, Tammy, telling them that we hadn't
seen it for awhile, she flew up to the feeder. After mid-morning we did not
see her again. As an added bonus, our first Rufous (male) of the year, came
to the feeder this morning. Along with a male Anna's that's also visiting,
we had a three hummingbird day!

Eric Bjorkman
Vancouver, WA