[TN-Bird] Re: Selasphorus - Knox / fire outages
- From: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:32:43 -0500 (EST)
I just quickly posted 3 photos of the hummer at
http://www-chaos.engr.utk.edu/~kde/pictmp/hum/KDEselas.html
A warning, they are big files and I haven't taken time to crop
them so if you are using dial-up... you have been warned.
The last photo shows the back which has some rufous color but
I'm not sure it's in the right place to rule out Allen's. Also,
it looks like the central tail feathers may have been molted
which might give good looks at the important tail feathers.
I'm going to try taping up that one feeder hole (it's favorite)
to try to get it to perch with it's back facing me for better
looks later.
More to come.
Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, K Dean EDWARDS wrote:
>
> After the DC Cormorants a couple of weeks ago, David Trently asked
> what I thought would be my next yardbird. I gave a list starting
> with House Sparrow and at the end said I was still hoping for a
> Rufous Hummingbird and Evening Grosbeaks this winter. Well I got
> one of those this morning... or maybe one better.
>
> At 7:30, Wed, 22 Nov 2006, while trying to live-trap an injured
> stray cat, I said to Amber, "There's a hummer at the feeder!"
> It's an immature male, probably Rufous but the one view of the
> back I've had so far, I didn't see any rufous coming in yet so
> we'll go with Selasphorus sp. for now.
>
> He was coming back every 20 min. I've seen him 3 times now
> and got some passable front-side photos taken through double-plane
> glass at an angle so a bit blurry. I'll try to post those later
> along with directions and viewing options.
>
> I say try because if you live in Knoxville you have probably heard
> about the fire in Dougherty Engineering Building last Friday. Well
> that was my home-away-from-home for many years and is where the
> server is that my friend Charles and I still use for email, websites,
> and some of our work. The computer survived the fire just fine
> but the network in the building is still intermittent. If you
> have or have had trouble getting email to me lately, that's why.
>
> Anyway, yard bird #147. Eat your heart out Jim and Betty Reid
> Campbell. :-)
>
>
> Dean Edwards
> Knoxville, TN
>
>
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