This is an "update" on the baby Anna's Hummingbird I featured on my post of May 2nd. That post reported on the first day the juvenile left its nest in the Central Courtyard here at Dallas Retirement Village on April 23rd. Since then, we have had quiet a variety of hummingbirds visit our juice feeder on our balcony, and it's always a fun chore to decide it it's an Anna's Hummingbird or a Rufous Hummingbird, and if it is a male, a female or a juvenile. This last Thursday evening, May 9th, we got this close-up of what I believe is our baby of this year as it spent close to a half hour at our feeder drinking and preening its feathers. We can now tell with certainty that our juvenile is a male as we note the change in his plumage, for instance the darkening under the chin. If you look closely, you will notice his tongue sticking out. I'm not sure if that was a part of his preening or an objection to having his photo taken.
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