[texbirds] Russ Pitman Park - Broad-billed Hummingbird

  • From: Doc <drbirdie@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:36:14 -0600

Hi Texbirders,
I just had a brief look at a subadult male Broad-billed Hummingbird at Russ 
Pitman Park in Bellaire (Houston).
This was a medium-sized dark hummingbird with a slightly decurved orange bill 
with a black tip. The gorget on throat was partly filled in with dark blue. 
Belly was whitish. It had a long, slightly notched tail. Dorsum of tail was 
black, not rufous. A narrow but prominent white supercilium extended behind the 
eye.
It was "tic"-ing loudly as it foraged briefly in shrimp plants before 
disappearing over chain link fence.
Bird was seen near southwest corner of park where a dead branch lies at an 
angle over a small clump of Shrimp Plants near the chain link fence.
The adul male Calliope Hummingbird was hanging out this morning at the plum 
tree wth hummer feeder and shrimp plants at the front (east side) of the house.
Good birding ya'll,
Byron Stone, Austin


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