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This morning I had two hummers at my feeder. One was a female Ruby-throated the other is a question. Unfortunately, the Ruby-throated defended the feeder vigorously and I did not get much of a look at the second bird. It was a greenbacked bird and appeared to be at least 25% smaller that the other. It seemed to have a smaller bill and shorter tail. I have been watching for the past several hours and it has not returned. From the liturature I have, I can't find how much size variation there is in the Ruby-throated. Does anyone have anymore info on this. If it returns I will keep people informed. Paul Egeland - Bloomington -------------------------------1127674777 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1479" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=3Drole_body style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY:=20= Arial"=20 bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7><FONT id=3Drol= e_document=20 face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2> <DIV>This morning I had two hummers at my feeder. One was a female Ruby-thro= ated=20 the other is a question. Unfortunately, the Ruby-throated defended the feede= r=20 vigorously and I did not get much of a look at the second bird. It was a=20 greenbacked bird and appeared to be at least 25% smaller that the other. It=20 seemed to have a smaller bill and shorter tail. I have been watching for the= =20 past several hours and it has not returned. From the liturature I have, I ca= n't=20 find how much size variation there is in the Ruby-throated. Does anyone have= =20 anymore info on this. If it returns I will keep people informed.</DIV> <DIV>Paul Egeland - Bloomington</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> -------------------------------1127674777--
