Calliope Hummingbirds in RI

 

 

Two immature Calliope Hummingbirds at the same flower garden (same salvia plant) in late October 2013 in Little Compton. Both birds a first record for RI. Both appeared the same day, 21 October. The bird with the black neck, which we called Cut-throat, departed 29 October on a strong southwest wind, so likely continued east. Clear-throat was displaced 6 November by a late Ruby-throated Hummingbird that appeared 5 November. That bird departed 13 November, the day after the season’s first measurable snowfall.  Photos by Geoff Dennis.

 

Rufous/Allen’s-type hummingbird on 11 November 1996 in Little Compton. Rhode Island's second recorded R/A-type hummingbird. Slide scan. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Rufous/Allen’s-type Hummingbird in mid-October 1995 in Little Compton. Rhode Island’s first recorded R/A-type Hummingbird. Print negative strip scan. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

6 Snowy Owls at the mouth of the Sakonnet River.  All photographed on the same afternoon from a boat. Photos by Geoff Dennis

Glaucous Gull in late November in Little Compton.  Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Lesser Black-backed Gull in late November in Little Compton by Geoff Dennis.

Lapland Longspur photographed in late October in Little Compton by Geoff Dennis.

American Avocet photographed by Geoff Dennis in early October in Little Compton.

One of two Hoary Redpolls in Little Compton in January, 2013. More images:
http://www.geoffdennisphotos.com/hoary_redpoll.html

Western Grebe off Sachuest Point NWR, Middletown, January, 2013.  Photographed from a boat by Geoff Dennis.