Thanks everyone. It just didn't quite make the cut for Costa's like last
year's hummingbird. Last year's bird had a more curved bill and a definite
shorter tail and in comparison to Anna's was smaller. On the other hand, I
have a LOT of juvenile Anna's at my feeders but none that have ever looked
this white below with virtually no gray on the sides. It really caught my
eye. I was inside my house so I didn't hear any sounds and it only stayed
about 60 seconds and didn't sit next to another hummingbird for a size
comparison. I've added a few more pics to the album for those that are
interested. Anna's it is.
For those who might be interested, I photographed a small dead shark a
couple weeks ago on the Nehalem State Park Beach. It's been id'd by a
shark expert as a Pacific Sleeper Shark. The pic is here and it has cool
teeth!
https://flic.kr/p/XmGgP6
Cheers, Beverly
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Shawneen Finnegan <
shawneenfinnegan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob Archer, you just beat me to the answer :-)
This looks like a young Anna’s Hummingbird to me. It has that thick-necked
and stocky look of an Anna’s.
The wing shape is fairly even in width, a feature of the genus *Calypte
*(Anna’s
and Costa’s).
Costa’s are big headed, too, but smaller and paler gray below. Young
Costa’s tend to be grayer or perhaps browner and more scaled looking
plumage-wise and are fairly compact.
It is not a Black-chinned based on overall shape and the shape of the
primaries. Black-chinned and Ruby-throat, both *Archilochus, *have
different width primaries with the inner six being narrower than the outer
primaries. And the way to tell Black-chinned from Ruby-throat is to look at
the shape of the outermost primary. On Black-chinned this feather is more
bulbous or club shaped at the tip, while Ruby-throat is pointed.
Shawneen
On Aug 9, 2017, at 5:12 PM, Beverly Hallberg <mapsout@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I took some pictures of this hummingbird in my backyard in Manzanita on
August 3rd. It looks very much like the Costa's Hummingbird female that
visited my backyard last year between August 7 - 28. I was hoping to get
more pictures of it, but I've not seen it again yet. There are regular
hummingbird wars over the 3 feeders that are out.
Any thoughts on identification? 4 pictures are in a Flickr album.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsm669xj3
Thanks, Beverly
