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Index of Subjects Eric Mills and I checked out the Lockeport hummer yesterday - coming to a feeder in Donna Crosby's beautiful flower garden, a magnet for hummers - and concluded that it was a young male Ruby-throated, with quite richly buffy sides. This one also had a Ruby-throated, not Rufous-toned, developing red patch on the lower throat. As we learned from last year's twitch of the Blallantyne Cove hummer in early December, there are several things to watch for on young male hummers that have buffy or even rufous sides, and as we saw last year, can even have cinnamon tones on the tail. Young male Ruby-throateds have a "raccoon-like" mask, and Selasphorus don't. Young male Ruby-throateds, if they have throat spotting, it is very fine, whereas Rufous tends to develop more coarse markings. Any hint of rufous on the green of the back, of course, is good for Rufous. Above all, look for solid ri\ufous on tail. Cheers, Ian Quoting iamclar@dal.ca: > All: > > Anyone down that way, or wanting to be, might check out a hummingbird > coming to a feeder at Donna Crosby's in Lockport (19 North St., near > town centre). Donna phoned to say that the bird appears to be a > young male, with rufous sides, green back, and some red feathers at > bottom of throat. Possibly a Rufous, but other possibilities should > be kept in mind. Good photos showing, among other things, spread > tail would be helpful. > > Cheers, Ian McLaren >
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