Hi all, After work I stopped by the AMNH and again the hummingbird made an immediate appearance in the flower beds east of the 81st Street entrance. After a minute or so it flew over to the flower beds on the west side and it stayed there for about 20 minutes, perching and feeding. In rather poor light I got a few more photos of it, but no good capture of its tail spread.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/landp/6518343403 The bird settled in the same place as yesterday - in the bushes near the wall in the flower bed west of the entrance. With some luck there will be some sunlight reaching the flower bed area early tomorrow morning. good luck if you go, Anders Peltomaa Manhattan On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Jacob Drucker <jacobdruc...@msn.com>wrote: > Hi All, > > Here are a few more pics of this hummer: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/58638795@N08/ > > The first, blurry picture, shows the gorget shining (looked orangey and > pinkish depending on angle), as well as a nice tail-spread, not really > revealing a notch in R2, but definitely showing the R1>R2>R3 (R2-D2). The > second picture also shows the different generations of feathers in the > wing, while the last picture shows what looks like body molt around the > neck. > > --Jacob > > > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
