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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ 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]