A very gracious thank you to Dansen and Leanne Brown for welcoming me to their home saturday to band the selasphorus hummingbird! (it was an easy sell as their daughter is a bander currently in AZ trained by jed burtt, jr. thanks jed!) banding confirms this a hatch year, male rufous hummingbird. (born this past summer). keep your eyes on your feeders! this is the fourth western hummer thus far in the centeral/northern parts of the eastern U.S. (probably more i am unaware of). three rufous (PA...I believe?, northern KY and now this one in Ohio) and a green violet-ear hummingbird in maryland a week ago or so. keep a feeder out through december ... you never know what might show up here in ohio! tim tolford www.hbrcnet.org ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]