I contacted Allen and will coordinate with him thanks!  I have better pictures that I will post. 

Thanks,
Matt Erickson

(614) 348-7358 cell
(614) 757-7649 work


On Nov 23, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Dan Hall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Matt,
>  Chances are good you saw a Rufous.  We own the Westerville,OH Wild Birds
> Unlimited store and worked with one of our customers that have had a female
> Rufous ("Maude") at their HB feeder since Oct 26th.  These folks are located
> in northern Westerville and are still seeing her as of today 11/23.   We put
> these folks in touch with Allen Chartier from Michigan
> (http://mihummingbirdguy.blogspot.com) who is one of a select few licensed
> hummingbird banders.  Allen came to Westerville earlier this week(11/19) and
> banded their hummer and ID'd it as an after hatch-year female Rufous.  This
> was Allen's first banded Rufous in Delaware county.  He was making the
> rounds through Ohio and had about half a dozen reports of Rufous HB's
> scattered around the state that he was hoping to authenicate/band. 
> According to Allen there is a rare chance of late hummers such as this being
> an even rarer Allen's hummer.  Once the bird is in hand he is able to
> distinguish Rufous vs. Allen's by a subtle difference in their tail
> feathers.  We posted several pictures that we took of Monday's banding
> activity at this website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/westervillewildbirds/
> 
>  Regards,
>  Dan Hall
>  http://westerville.wbu.com/
> 

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