[Tweeters] Anna hummingbird

[rae at raehight.com]

That’s what we were wondering, if something had happened to a tail feather or wing. How fun to give it a name! When we sit on the deck and hear it buzz by, we laugh and make our own buzzing sounds. 

 

Thanks!

 

Rae

 

From: Dan Reiff <dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 11:56 PM
To: Robert O'Brien <baro at pdx.edu>
Cc: THOMAS BENEDICT <benedict.t at comcast.net>; rae at raehight.com; tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Anna hummingbird

 

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 <mailto:baro at pdx.edu> > wrote:



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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