[TN-Bird] Late Hummer...N. Knox Co.

I was sitting on my deck this Halloween evening listening to All Things 
Considered, about 4:40 PM, when a hummingbird dropped in and checked out some 
fall flowers my wife had in a window box. Skies were clear and temp was about 
65. The flowers were not to its liking, and it then moved to a limb of a maple 
about 25 yards away. It stayed there only a few seconds, then it was gone. My 
deck faces east, so this whole sequence was in shadows and that being the case, 
I couldn't discern sex or specie.
I feed hummers throughout the season and my last boarder, a female RT hummer 
was last seen the morning of 10/10. A week later, I took down my feeders. 

Would this late hummer have been a straggling migrant, or could it have been a 
wayward exotic? I know that exotic hummers have been known to overwinter in our 
area in the past, staying with folks who carefully tended to their 
needs...............your thoughts?

John Skaggs

Powell

North Knox Co. TN     
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