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

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