[Tweeters] Anna hummingbird

[Dan Reiff]

Several years ago, we had an Anna’s that had lost or had molted a wing primary feather.
We always knew when “Buzz” flew in.
Dan Reiff Sent from my iPhone


> On Jul 15, 2021, at 9:53 PM, Robert O'Brien <baro at pdx.edu> wrote:

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> 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.

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>> 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.

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>> 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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