wow, what marvellous work, both of you! So wonderful that I shared the
video on my Guardian blog, and linked to christine's piece about rufus
hummingbirds! take a peek, or share this link with all your friends, family
and colleagues:

http://gu.com/p/46p64/stw

thanks for sharing!


On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Christine Southwick <
clsouth at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Great video!! I have a bunch of young Girls Scouts who will love seeing
> this!
>
> Just an FYI: The mother is a Rufus Hummingbird, and the youngster is
> probably a male (judging from his "after 5 o'clock shadow). He won't get
> his beautiful gorget until next (this) spring.
> I'm not sure when his body feathers are replaced with the brilliant rufus
> colors--if hummingbird juveniles change their fledgling feathers to adult
> body plumage at similar timing as song birds, then he will have already
> changed to the rufus colors, and only his gorget will be noticeably
> different from an after-second-year male.
>
> As it happens, I just had an article on Rufus Hummingbirds published in
> the Shoreline Area News March 18th.
>
> http://www.shorelineareanews.com/search/label/for%20the%20birds
>
> using some of Doug Parrott's great pictures.
>
> Thanks for sharing Ann. My co-workers thought the video was neat too.
>
>
> Christine Southwick
> N Seattle/Shoreline
> clsouthwick at q.com
>
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2015, Ann Chaikin wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:46:43 -0700
>> From: Ann Chaikin <chaikins at gmail.com>
>> To: Tweeters at mailman1.u.washington.edu
>> Subject: [Tweeters] (no subject)
>>
>>
>> Response to She's Baaack!!
>>
>> Caryn,
>> What a treat to be able to see this. I had a similar experience two years
>> ago after somebody showed me a nest in a park near where I live. I went
>> back frequently over the next three weeks to photograph and then
>> videotape the mother and her baby. Here is a link to the video I made of the
>> experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emXB_CahDrs. If this like
>> doesn't work, search for "Mother hummingbird and her baby at Big Rock
>> Garden."
>> That should take you to the video. It is about 11 minutes long.
>> Cheers.
>> Ann Chaikin
>>
>>
>>
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