I pulled up the tic calls for Anna's and they sounded familiar, but not like the bird I heard. That said, I also pulled up Calliope and found similar calls... I think this is one to let go! I can't make it back out there right now, and it just seems like either of the other species besides Anna's here (Calliope or Costa's) would have looked an awful lot smaller/short-tailed. Thanks, Kevin!


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From: Kevin Lucas <vikingcove at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2018 6:15 PM
To: Tim Brennan
Cc: Tweeters
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Renton mystery hummingbird???

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<mailto: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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