Bristol Area Birders: This message is a forward from the Humnet Mailing List Enjoy Wallace Coffey Bristol ------------------------------BEGIN FORWARD----------------------------------- From: Chris Sloan Date: Sunday, November 10, 2002 4:12 PM To: Humnet Subject: TN's 1st Broad-tail! This morning a mere five miles from my home in Nashville Portia Macmillan and I banded and documented the first BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD ever recorded in Tennessee. This is the seventh species of hummingbird documented in TN, and one that many of us have expected for quite a while now. It is an HY bird, which I called a female in the field based largely on the lack of any orangy color in r2, but I'm now undecided and still researching the question of gender. I was suspsicious when I heard it, since I recognized that this call note was a little lower pitched, a little less flat and a little more musical than a typical Rufous/Allen's call. Once I grabbed it out of the trap and looked at that tail, I was even more suspicious. Once I took the wing measurement (49.86), I thought Portia was going to have to give me a sedative to get me to calm down! The bird appeared to be in good health, with no fat, although it drank from the feeder so much in my hand I thought I'd have to weight her again! p5 was molting. Obviously, this was a very exciting morning for me. I plan to post some photos as soon as I retrieve my camera that I left in Portia's car. happy hummingbirding, Chris Sloan Nashville, TN ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST This is a regional birding list sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. It serves the Russell County Bird Club, Herndon Chapter TOS, Greeneville TOS Chapter, Blue Ridge Birders Club, Butternut Nature Club, Buchanan County Bird Club, Bristol Bird Club, Clinch Valley Bird Club and Cumberland Nature Club. -------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds. To post to this mailing list, simply send an email to: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. -------------------------------------------------- Wallace Coffey, Moderator jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423)764-3958