cinnamon325's Identifications

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.

Flipped under a rock at the edge of a stream. Found in the immediate vicinity of several other Northern Duskies, with which it appeared largely consistent in size, structure, and color. I suspect that the tapered appearance of the tail tip is an artifact of the angle, photo quality, and wet mud

Flipped under a rock at the edge of a stream, closely associated with a Two-lined Salamander. Tail appeared laterally compressed and somewhat keeled in life, more closely approaching the impression in the third photo rather than the first two in-hand photos, where the tail is drooping over the finger and partly obscured