Lifer and first state record! Confirmed individual continuing since October at a private home/feeder
This is a confirmed Allen’s hummingbird that spent the winter at a feeder station in Riverhead. These photos are not diagnostic as they do not show shape/color of individual rectrices, but photos by others do and I suspect they will be surfacing in the coming weeks. The presence of this bird was not publicized so as to protect the sensitive residential location from being swarmed by birders.
Unfortunately this bird was gone when I came back with the scope.
1st state record