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Greenwood SC Selasphorus hummingbird


I learned just last week that a Selasphorus hummingbird has been 
coming daily to a feeder in Greenwood, South Carolina (Greenwood 
County) since last November. (I believe this adds another county for 
the state for this year.)

I visited the site this morning en route to Greenville SC, arriving 
at 7 a.m.  After setting up a pull-string trap, I waited for four 
hours and saw the bird only once at 7:40 a.m. when it scoped out the 
trap, did not enter, but perched nearby.

This bird probably would have been far more "catchable" earlier in 
the winter when it was coming to the feeder frequently during the 
day, and before local flowers and insects bloomed.

Based on: 1) my observations today, 2) comments of the homeowner, and 
3) photographs taken at mid-winter, this bird is most likely a 
second-year female Rufous Hummingbird.


Send on the rubythroats. :-)

BILL



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