Can't add to what Thomas Benedict says.
Except that a neighbor of ours, years ago, had what was very likely a
Broad-tailed Hummer, as Tom describes, at her feeder.
It's possible. A photo or even a sound recording would be interesting.
Bob OBrien Portland.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 1:14 PM THOMAS BENEDICT <benedict.t at comcast.net>
wrote:


> Are you questioning whether it's an Anna's? Your description matches the

> Anna's we have here in Seahurst (Burien,WA). They definitely 'hum' when

> they fly by. Broad-Tailed hummingbirds make a stronger, metallic 'whirr'

> and look like a larger Anna's with a white breast and green crown, but they

> typically stay in the Nevada-Utah-Colorado-Arizona-New Mexico region.

>

> Tom Benedict

> Seahurst, WA

>

> On 07/15/2021 12:38 PM rae at raehight.com wrote:

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> We have what we believe is an Anna hummingbird who visits our feeder. The

> sound during flight is like a low pitched thrumming (at first we thought it

> was a brush cutter). Makes us think of the sound of cards clattering

> against the spokes of a bicycle wheel when we were kids. It is a dark

> emerald colored (though part of its back seems almost black), short beak

> and tail. We live in Port Orchard. Thoughts? Thanks -; Jim and Rae Hight

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