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Buff-bellied Hummingbird (1 Viewer)

cbrownin

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Just wanted to share this shot I was able to get of a Buff-bellied Hummingbird.
 

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Nice one thanks for sharing. Is that a white eye-spot?

It looks not unlike the Chestnut-bellied Hummingbirds which we get near here and I can also see the similarity with a Rufous-tailed. Perhaps not totally surprising since they're all genus Amazilia.
 
Thank you for the comments. I just started birding in March of ths year although I have been interested in birds all my life. I am totally addicted now and take my binoculars and camera with me every time I leave the house. I am a strange birder in that I don't feel I can "count" a bird unless I can get a picture of it, which, I think is opposite of most serious birders...anyway, I digress... I took this picture at the World Birding Center in Edinburg, Texas, Edinburg Scenic Wetlands. This fellow would perch, then fly away, always returning to this exact spot after a minute or so. Overall I observed him and another male for about 20 minutes.
 
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Thanks, I was hoping it was here. I know they frequent the lower Rio Grande. Hope I get to see one some day.
 
Thanks, I was hoping it was here. I know they frequent the lower Rio Grande. Hope I get to see one some day.

Along the TX coast they are supposed to reach quite a bit north of there in summer, the ABA guide to the coast mentions places in both Corpus Christi and in Aransas.

Niels
 
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