Image of Wine-throated Hummingbird

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OK, I will test your patience with some scans of some old, marginal 35 mm slides. gcwarbler had retained many boxes of some of my culled slides from 20-30 years ago. I have enough to keep me busy for many weeks at least with scanning, etc. (thanks Chuck….I think!). These will all be of records I had not posted to iNat previously. Sorry for the marginal/poor quality of most of these but they are all I have. Between 1987 and 2005 I led more that a dozen trips to the El Triunfo Cloud Forest in Chiapas in search of Horned Guan and other species. One of the birds we always looked for was Wine-throateed Hummingbird. In my field notes for this day I have descriptions of the display and courtship of this male bird we witnessed, but the camera gear I had and dark situation made photography of this tiny bird quite a challenge. These slides are all I have and they are cropped significantly.