AZ Hummingbird (1 Viewer)

[tucansam]

Please forgive image size, I'm trying to give as much visual detail as possible. And please forgive pics, holding heavy binos in one hand and stupid clumsy phone in the other while trying to shoot through the binos!

This little plumper has been hitting my feeder, but rather than going to the tree behind my wall where the rest of the hummingbirds rest, she will rest on the rocks on the ground. Never seen that before. I'm saying she because there's no purple on the face like the internet says males will have.

The google machine says Black-Chinned aka Archilochus alexandri. Super awesome pattern on the face, and glistening metallic green everywhere else. Gorgeous bird. As I type this she continues to hit the feeder and then take a break on the ground in the rocks. Been doing it for 20 minutes now.

 

[Lisa W]

Looks like a male Costa’s to me. You don’t always see the iridescence of the feathers.

 

[tucansam]

Thank you! I believe you are correct. Looking up the Costa, and now hearing its beautiful song, I hear that sound in my neighborhood all the time.

 

[tucansam]

He's still here. He's be going between the rocks at the base of my wall, and my feeder, for going on seven hours.

 

[Scott98]

What is going on with those rocks I wonder??? I never see them sitting on the ground.

 

[tucansam]

I was wondering the same, and I've never seen it either. It was a colder than usual day. Perhaps the rocks were radiating the sun's heat, and he was staying warm?

 

[Scott98]

I was wondering the same, and I've never seen it either. It was a colder than usual day. Perhaps the rocks were radiating the sun's heat, and he was staying warm?

that's probably it...conserving energy. He must have convinced himself that he's safe from predators right there.