[Tweeters] Anna hummingbird

[rae at raehight.com]

I wondered about the Broad-tailed Hummer, but it doesn’t seem to have the white breast. It was real active (buzzing in short flights) from tree to feeder a number of time the other day while we were sitting on the deck. I’ll see if I can get a recording with my phone. 

Thanks!

 

Rae

 

 

 

From: Robert O'Brien <baro at pdx.edu> 
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 9:53 PM
To: THOMAS BENEDICT <benedict.t at comcast.net>
Cc: rae at raehight.com; tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Anna hummingbird

 

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 <mailto: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 <mailto:rae at raehight.com>  wrote: 

  

  

 

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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