Winter hummingbird #2 was first reported to me via email on December 5th by a wonderful hummer host who at the time didn’t know what species was visiting her feeders but knew that a hummer in December was surely a “strange” sight. Cell phone pictures revealed it was indeed a hummingbird but not much else.
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The very next morning, December 6th, hummingbird #3 showed up at a feeder in the Antioch area of Davidson County and was reported via Facebook to Tennessee Birding. This hummingbird was not at all shy and many area birders and photographers were able to visit and get pictures before I could arrange to band the bird since at the time I was visiting family in New Jersey. Because I was out of town I relied on and acquired some wonderfully diagnostic flight pictures and determined that hummingbird #3 was probably a Rufous Hummingbird. Learn more…
