You hummingbird looks like a female Anna's, although the gorget spot doesn't appear pink, that is the light and angle. The dark gray belly and gray undertail coverts point to ID as Anna's in my opinion. BN

I'm NW of San Antonio. I started seeing winter hummingbirds in my neighborhood last winter, when several showed up in November 2011. As far as I can tell, there's only one hummer around here this winter. I'm having trouble with bees constantly on the feeder the last few days. I had bee guards, but the bees crawl inside the bee guards, so I took them off. Hopefully, this won't go on long, as it's hard for the hummer to feed! I've never had such a big problem with bees before!

Just got back from a week in SoCal. The aloe collection at the Huntington Garden near Pasadena was buzzing with overwintering Rufous hummers, along with resident Anna's. I have also seen rufous at backyard hummer feeders in the Glendale (SoCal) area in December. Not all that difficult to distinguish rufous from Anna's, as the rufous always have quite a bit of red on them - backs, sides, tail, and throat on males, sides, tail and a small throat patch on the females. Anna's females are plain green with only a small throat patch of red, and males have bright red head and throat but that's it. Anna's undersides are gray where the rufous are white. The rufous also often look like they have a white collar on. No hummingbird 'sings', if you want to get technical about it. They are not in the Songbird group. But the species can easily be distinguished by the sounds they make, whether vocalizations or wing and tail buzzings. The rufous most definitely make vocalizations, which are not at all like those of the Anna's. The westside Oly Wild Birds Unlimited just sent out their email newsletter, where they report a sharp increase in the number of people reporting sightings of Anna's hummers overwintering in Olympia. So, they're expanding their range!

Here in rural southeastern MA I'm seeing a lot of red-winged blackbirds, grackles, and cowbirds; a few Baltimore and orchard orioles, catbirds, starlings, blue jays, tufted titmice, chickadees, downy woodpeckers, white-breasted nuthatches, song and white-throated sparrows, goldfinches, cardinals, and mourning doves. The wild turkeys are mostly in the woods, presumably nesting, but there are a few juvenile toms running around and an occasional hen. Gray and red squirrels and chipmunks. Still waiting for the resident hummingbirds (ruby-throats). Claire edit note: I have a varied assortment of feeders and ground feeding areas.