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I observed a Selasphorus species of hummingbird at a residence in=20
Warrior Estates off Big Springs Road off Gap Creek Road near=20
Elizabethton, Carter Co., TN, today, Dec. 7, at 11:30 a.m. I waited=20
with a photographer =E2=80=94 Eveleigh Hatfield =E2=80=94 from the Elizabeth=
ton Star=20
newspaper for about 20 minutes before the bird made an appearance.

The hummingbird's hosts =E2=80=94 Betty and James Murray =E2=80=94 notified=20=
me about=20
the hummingbird on Wednesday, Dec. 6. I waited from 4:30-5:20 p.m.=20
yesterday to get a look at the bird, but it didn't show.

Betty called me again this morning to tell me the bird had fed about=20
half a dozen times this morning.

She first noticed the bird around Thanksgiving.

I have several photos of the bird that I will post later to the Herndon=20
Bird Club's yahoo site.

This is the second wintering hummer report I have received this season.=20
A resident of the Valley Forge community in Carter County near=20
Elizabethton had what she described as a Selasphorus species visiting=20
on Nov. 13. I have not observed that bird, and my last e-mail from the=20
host said that the hummingbird was still present around Thanksgiving,=20
but the family had left for a trip to Florida and that bird's current=20
status is unclear.

Bryan Stevens,
Hampton, TN


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