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Some days ago, Fulton Lavender found a hummingbird in the Rockingstone Road area of Spryfield that had been coming to a local feeder. He had a brief view and concluded that provisionally at least it could be a Ruby-throat. Today Ian McLaren and I watched this bird for some time under poor weather and light conditions at a feeder at 125 Tartan Ave (at the end of Ardwell and adjacent to the Kidston Farm park). It has also been visiting the feeder of Lola-May and Art Kidston at #52 Rockingstone Road. While the bird may indeed be a Ruby-throat (apparently an immature female), it has a very long decurved bill and appears to have blunt primaries and a slaty-colored forecrown. It also pumps its tail while feeding. These are marks of Black-chinned Hummingbird. More observations of this bird would be helpful, and especially pictures of the head, and if at all possible of the spread tail and wing feathers, along with its hovering feeding behaviour. Rockingstone Road and the Kidston Farm park are located along the Old Sambo Road (Hwy 306) about 1-1/2 km S of where it joins the Herring Cove Road, as described by Suzanne Borkowski in announcing the Townsend's Warbler in the same place (it was also present this morning with Chickadees and a Myrtle Warbler).
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