[birdky] BKY- another Selasphorus hummer in Warren Co.

Wednesday 11-12-2003

Another Selasphorus hummingbird has showed up in Warren Co. in the Rich Pond 
area. The bird appears to be also an adult female. It has a green back, rump 
and no rufous in the uppertail coverts, but rufous showing at the base of 
the outer rectrices when fanned. Throat color is limited to a small splotch 
of orange in the lower center of the throat. The sides of the hummer have a 
soft cinnamon color. The best I could observe, it had new wing primaries 
(maybe 1 thru 5 or 6) which were molting back in (much darker in color and 
short) and the outer primaries were dull and lighter in color.

The Selasphorus hummer which showed up at our yard  in October is still 
making appearances at the flowers and feeders but is absent for long periods 
of the day. With the strong cold front tonight due to kill most everyone's 
flowers :-(  these birds should be seen at the feeders on a regular 
schedule.

Jackie B. Elmore
Bowling Green, KY
Warren Co.

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