From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Feb 10 15:28:25 2005 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1ANPZGo024855 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:25:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-m15.mx.aol.com (imo-m15.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.205]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1ANOfAf024812 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:24:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m15.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id t.15.3e3c1e05 (2612) for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:24:35 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:24:35 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5005 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Near adult male Rufous Hummingbird, Ed levin Co. Pk. X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] All, This morning Frank Vanslager and I ran into Pat Kenny and Roland Kenner in the southern portion of Ed Levin County Park. While there we saw a near-adult male RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD. When viewed from the side this bird appeared to be a full adult male RUHU however when viewed from the rear the bird had a fairly bright green central mantle and a lightly green speckled forward portion of the crown. It's important to note that the green on the mantle was well separated from the green shoulder (both RUHU and ALHU have green shoulders) by a fairly broad section of rufous extending from the lower back and upper-tail coverts to the upper mantle and neck (the green was not continuous between the wing and mantle as would be expected on Allen's Hummingbirds), The rufous also extended much higher on the lower back than would normally be seen on ALHUs while the back of the head was also rufous up to about mid-crown (the back of the head would green on ALHUs). Several other male Selasphorous Hummingbirds were seen and at least one of these was an ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD. View angle (very high in a tree) and lighting (shady side) of a third male were inadequate to clearly identify it, the back seemed darker (more green) and the green mantle seemed to continue to the shoulders while the back of the head seemed to be quite rufous. (Both of the "non-ALHUs" seen well seemed to have full sized gorgets that would occasionally show green. Allowing for the fact that these feathers are structurally designed to change color depending on it's angle to the sun I don't recall ever having before seen green in the gorgets of male Selasphorous Hummingbirds.) Take care, Bob Reiling _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]