Many bird experts from Los Alamos have contacted the Los Alamos Daily Post to say that the first visitor of the year photographed on Nickel Street Wednesday evening is actually a Broad-Tailed Humming Bird rather than a Ruby-throated Hummingbird Bird. Ruby-throated Hummingbird Birds have a distinctive notched tail and make no noise when flying. A Broad-Tail is the only hummer that ‘whistles’ when in flight. Los Alamos is too far West for the Ruby-throated. Photo by Daniel Seitz
A Broad-Tailed Humming Bird swoops in for a sweet drink at a home on Nickel Street. Photo by Daniel Seitz
