Tim,

Anna's have overwintered, visiting feeders in our yard here in Selah, and
previously in our yard in Yakima for six or so years. I often hear them
ticking. I don't know if it's the same sound you heard. Sometimes the tick
sounds like something a junco does. The quality and tempo of the tick
varies. I've taken that as a sign of its varying level of annoyance with my
presence near a feeder, or its message to other Anna's nearby, or something
else. Juvenile males sound distinctly different than adult males.

Kevin Lucas
Selah, Yakima County, WA


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On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Tim Brennan <tsbrennan at hotmail.com> wrote:


> Hey Tweets,

>

>

> I was taking a look at the Cedar River Mouth this morning, and found

> really nothing of interest on the water. I returned to the walking path at

> the very very north end, and found some bushtits, an Anna's Hummingbird,

> and then... I heard this tic tic tic tic tic.... tic tic tic... coming from

> a dense tree (.5-.8 seconds between tics, I decided). I could not place

> the sound at all, and walked to the bush thinking I would pish out a

> warbler, but a hummingbird popped out. I didn't pick up anything but green

> and white, and am no judge at all on size/tail length... you know, the

> *useful* things. The hummingbird gave one more round of tics before

> heading south to another tree. I had no means to photograph or record it,

> and heard no other sounds from the bird while it was in flight. I stayed

> long enough at the tree to confirm that there was nothing else in it (Just

> a little dwarf tree) that could have been making the sound, then dashed

> home.

>

>

> The closest thing I could find to this sound was a Costas Hummingbird,

> from the Cornell site and Xeno-Canto, but I haven't exhausted the search

> through Calliope and Black-chinned calls. I've never heard an Anna's or

> Rufous make any sound like this before, and am pretty familiar with those

> two species, of course. Any other ideas would be very welcome, and of

> course, if you have a chance to poke around, there's at the very least an

> interesting hummingbird at the Cedar River Mouth.

>

>

> Tim

>

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