[EBB Sightings] Black-chinned Hummingbird at Coyote Hills nectar garden

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:32:35 -0700 (PDT), David Leahy 
wrote:

>http://leahy.to/birds/black-chinned%20hummingbird.html
>The only time I've seen a Black-chinned Hummingbird in California (I don't
>get away from the Bay Area much for my birding).  Is this unusual?  Is she
>a wandering migrant who should be in Mexico by now?

Yes, most Black-chinned Hummingbirds have left the Bay Area by now. The
last of the Black-chins are gone from California by the first week of
October.   

But don't Black-chins usually show narrow inner primaries?  To me, all the
primaries appear to be about the same width on your photos.  The wide inner
primaries and the grayish wash on the sides and lack of buff on the flanks
would have led me to identify the bird as an Anna's Hummingbird if I had
seen it myself. 

Did you hear it call?   

-- 
Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA 94044   jmorlan (at) ccsf.edu 
S.F. Birding Classes start Oct 28   http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/
California Bird Records Committee   http://www.wfo-cbrc.org/cbrc/