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Re: Unusual hummingbird



Has anyone been able to get to the cited site?  I can't even get to the
main page without getting an error.  I've tried on four different
computers ... even a T-1 connection.

Jim Sutton


BILL HILTON JR Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History wrote:

> BOB . . .
>
> This is the time of years when hummers are poking their heads into
> Trumpet Creeper blossoms, which have stamens at the top of the
> tube--just in the right place to dump a load of whitish-yellow pollen
> onto the bird's forehead or crown. Sometimes the pollen accumulates
> in significant amounts.
>
> Other flower species may cause pollen accumulation on the throat.
>
> See http://www.rubythroat.org/RTHUForagingMain.html
>
> Best wishes,
>
> BILL
>
> *********
>
> >      While I was weeding and watering my flower patch today, a
> >hummingbird came by.  Observed in full sun without binoculars, it
> >appeared to be an ordinary female/immature ruby-throat.  Two hours
> >later from inside the house I saw a hummer, so I grabbed my
> >binoculars and took a closer look.  The bird looked like a standard
> >female ruby-throat except that it's forehead and at least part of
> >the crown was white, the same color as its throat.
> >     Is this a normal variation or some kind of sport?
> >
> >Bob
> >--
> >--------------------------------------------------
> >Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
> >Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
> >Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311
> >910-630-7037     rperkins@methodist.edu
>
> --
>
> BILL HILTON JR., "The Piedmont Naturalist"
> Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
> 1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
> hilton@hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845
>
> Please visit our web sites at http://www.hiltonpond.org and
> http://www.rubythroat.org
>
> "Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to
> watch the sunset."                                      BHjr.