Hello to all Allen Chartier has just sent out a very detailed explanation on his feelings about the identity of this hummingbird. Over the past few days I have also sent the 9 original photos and Harold Stiver's 6 photos to several other skilled birders for their expert opinion.
When Will Russell told me I was not able to submit the photos to ID-F as an attachment, I asked him to send me his personal comments, and only yesterday, he sent the Stiver photos to Steve Howell. I have communicated twice with both David Sibley and Joe Morlan, and Alan Wormington copied Van Remsen the photos for his thoughts. We have heard from everyone except Steve Howell (who would have only received the photos this morning), and based on the photographs they studied, Russell, Sibley, Morlan, and Van Remsen have all joined Chartier placing this individual in the Rufous/Allen's group. They also have sent out detailed reasons why they feel Broad-tailed can be ruled out. Kayo Kayo Roy 13 Kinsman Court Fonthill, ON L0S 1E3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 18 13:48:36 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.93]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5535F47F67 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:48:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from sympatico.ca ([209.226.251.69]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:49:28 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:47:51 -0500 From: Doug McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ont birds <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Kittiwake still at Presqu'ile X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:48:36 -0000 Hello all, Bruce Di Labio, Diane Whitman and myself went out to Beach 1 this morning to watch the mixed species feeding frenzy that has been developing to impressive proportions in Popham Bay (off shore from the beach) in recent weeks. We relocated the immature Black-legged Kittiwake as well as one 2nd winter Little Gull, a Red-necked Grebe seen among roughly 4000 Rb Mergansers, 1500 Bonaparte's, 1500 Herring Gull, 500 Rb Gull. The fog today made it difficult to see the bulk of the birds and there may be many more out of sight; certainly many more could be heard calling in the fog. On Gull Island there were two Snowy Owls, 2 B-b Plover and one American Golden Plover.
