[tn-bird] Rufous Hummer (Elizabethton)

Birders:

An immature, male Rufous Humming bird is
coming to a feeder in Elizabehton, Carter
County.

Dave Worley and Wallace Coffey visited the
feeder early today (2/19) and watched it
for more than an hour.  It is a rainbow of
beauty and we enjoyed it tremendously.

It is coming to the home of Carroll Mottern
who lives at 115 Reynolds Road just off the old
U.S. 19 (Bristol Highway) and runs downhill past
the famous Slagle's Pasture Blue Grass stage.

Carroll told Coffey Sunday afternoon (2/17) that the
bird has been coming to his yard since early fall
2001 and he has thought all along that it was a
female Ruby-throated.  He had taken down his
hummer feeders last fall when he noticed a hummer
still zipping around his yard so he put a feeder back
out.

He was surprised to learn that it is a Rufous 
He said he knew what a Rufous was because he has
a book on hummingbird but didn't know that any
other species occurs in this region.

We learned of this bird when Betty Poole of
Bristol, Virginia, who has been hosting two
Rufous hummers this winter, heard a caller
on John Quaintance's WJCW talk show.  He
asked how the hummingbird was doing.  She did
not know the name of the caller but thought he
must be somewhere in Carter County.

With the help of the talk show host and Herndon
Chapter birder Bryan Stevens, Mr. Mottern
was located and welcomed us to see the bird.

If you want to see this bird, please call 
(423) 542-5574 and make arrangements in
advance.  Please do not just walk up on his
place because all of this is new to him.

Bryan, thanks for your good help. 

Wallace Coffey
Bristol




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