Last evening I saw a bird sitting on a wire on a back road by a field and across from a smaller woods.  At first I thought it would be an indigo bunting because I often see one perching there in the summer.  But no, that wasn't it.  this is my description

an indigo bunting sized bird that was medium almost golden brown on the back and wings and I think on the top of the  head.
There was an iridescent rosy red on the chin like a hummingbird and below that iridescent green.  It had a fairly long slightly downward curved bill with a flying insect of some kind in the bill.  I got with in 20 feet of it in my car and got a good look at it for about a minute before a pickup drove by from the other direction.  When it flew then it flew off straight away from me like a black bird or other song bird, but not like a ruby throated hummingbird flies..If it was a  hummer, it was a giant.
Can anyone give me any ideas of what it could be?  In Kaufman's guide, the closest hummer was the Rufous.  The bill and the brown back color would be closest, but could also be broad tailed for color except back and head were more brown than the broad tailed in the book.  And I swear that the bird I saw would be bigger than the 4 and 1/4 inches of the broadtailed , but close.

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