No photo from today's sighting, but this hummingbird is still around. It's now without a single tail feather, giving it a decidedly not-Broad-tailed look, even though the rest of it seems like a Broad-tailed. No noticeable changes yet to the head feathers. It's fattening up, though, for sure, and it's holding its own in all the territorial activity going on with other hummers. I think there's another Broad-tailed around and perhaps also a Black-chinned.
- Jared On Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 11:18:35 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > Perhaps the bird poked its head in somewhere deep and got its head > feathers all sticky? Otherwise it looks like a BT hummer to me. Or maybe > its some rare bird blown up from Central America by Hurricane Ida!? – Dave > Hyde/Longmont > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows > > > > *From: *Jared Del Rosso > *Sent: *Sunday, September 5, 2021 9:31 AM > *To: *Colorado Birds > *Subject: *Re: [cobirds] Aberrant Hummingbird Question + Other Birds of > Note - Arapahoe > > > > The hummingbird visited my yard again this morning. My photos confirmed > what I saw a few evenings ago, in the dusk light -- a hummingbird with few > tail feathers and a crest or puff of feathers on its crown, though I don't > think it looks like it is actively molting feathers from its head. (Really, > not sure.) I don't think anything about this bird suggests it's obviously > not a Broad-tailed, but if you have another opinion or if you have any > thoughts on the bird's condition, I'd love to hear it. - Jared Del Rosso, > Centennial > > > > > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Colorado Birds" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en > * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include > bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate > * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Colorado Birds" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/1eea4483-2623-4027-89dc-e09de700f2c6n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/1eea4483-2623-4027-89dc-e09de700f2c6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/401802b0-07ba-4701-a1dc-c890e1b4641dn%40googlegroups.com.
