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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Ann Brokelman on June 08, 2008, 08:10:37 AM

Title: Female Hummingbird
Post by: Ann Brokelman on June 08, 2008, 08:10:37 AM

This little female has been hanging around my front window. Was able to get a couple of shots of her yesterday.  Ann

(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd318/annbrokelman/HummingbirdJune72008015.jpg)

(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd318/annbrokelman/HummingbirdJune72008004.jpg)

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Post by: Bluffs Birder on June 08, 2008, 09:36:43 PM

Hi Ann,

Beautiful capture!!!  Excellent work and great clarity!!!  Love the second picture.

Walter (aka Bluffs Birder)

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Post by: Anonymous on June 09, 2008, 07:56:01 PM

As always Ann, you shoot a mean picture... :D

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Post by: Ann Brokelman on June 10, 2008, 12:58:02 PM

Thank you Walter and Attila.  I just wish the little guys would stand still longer.  I have only been able to capture them through the window.  By the time I am outside they are gone.  I have also had a couple of hummers that are about 1/2 even smaller size.  So far noluck taking a  shot.  I have no idea what they are.  Ann

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Post by: Pat Hodgson on June 11, 2008, 09:48:53 AM

something that moves a bit like a hummingbird but is half the size is probably a sphinx moth - unless you have a mega-rarity, any h-bird encountered here should be about the same size as any other one

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Post by: Ann Brokelman on June 12, 2008, 07:22:05 PM

Thanks for the idea.  Perhaps it is a sphinx moth.  Wish I had a picture of it.  It really looked like a minature hummingbird all blue only little.  Ann