Testing The New 70-200mm
...when I had a visitor trying to hint to me to move away from his feeder.
If anyone knows what species this is, could you please share? Im not much of a bird expert, and this guy is a regular. Thanks for lookin.
If anyone knows what species this is, could you please share? Im not much of a bird expert, and this guy is a regular. Thanks for lookin.
D7000/D5000 | Nikkor Glass | SB600's | RF602's | CS5/LR3
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Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
The female rufous hummingbird looks similar from that angle, but you can usually see some of the rufous (copper) color on their back mixed with the green. If it was a rufous and you had a side shot you'd see that color clearly on her flanks.
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One more question, how can you both tell its a female?
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
Not a ruby-throated hummingbird if he's located just south of Seattle. We don't have them here.
"Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard, grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em!"
A male adult Anna's hummingbird would have some color on it's head like this...
It could be a juvenile male. They look a lot like the females.
Here's a female Anna's from December 2008 to compare. The trouble light was to keep the feeder thawed out. Since the Anna's don't migrate they're a little more high maintenance in the winter here.
"Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard, grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em!"
We had to put lights out on our feeders this past winter like that. Also, cycled the feeders out with some that we kept in the house.