Greetings All: It has been a busy week and I am just getting to the week's birding chores. The first of these is to report an adult male Rufous Hummingbird, spotted as it sparred with one of the Black-chinned Hummingbirds in my backyard on Thursday morning, 3 July 2014. This is, I think, the earliest date for the species in my yard. Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner