FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Two testy hummingbirds....one a rufous??????????

[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

Good afternoon,
 
Here in the Charlotte Park section of West Nashville, the hummingbirds have  
been hovering around and fighting over the feeder.  For over an hour, I  have 
been waiting, watching and hoping that one apparent migrant would return  and 
let me see it better and maybe get a photo.  Just as I came into the  room 
after having been grocery shopping this morning, two hummers were wheeling,  
turning and chasing each other then disappeared into the hackberry trees out  
back.  As one of them did its wheeling and turning in the brilliant  sunshine, 
I 
got glimpses of bright orange as what appeared to be a possible  adult male 
rufous played tag with a bird that looked like a  female ruby-throated.  This 
male had all the brightness of "Willie," the  rufous that frequented the 
Curtis' 
feeder in Smithville for so many days a few  winters ago and of a large number 
of rufous males that I've seen  out west.  I just wish it would come back, 
but it did fly back into  the trees instead of perching on a limb facing the 
feeder.  Usually, they  perch on a nearby limb if they plan to feed again soon. 
 
I have quite a few  ruby-throateds perched out there right now from where they 
make fairly frequent  visits to sip sugar water.
 
Question:  Isn't it supposed to be to early to expect a rufous?   Or, is any 
time after breeding "game" time?
Whatta bird!!!!
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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