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This picture was taking in Dominica at mine and my wife’s wedding meal, we were just sitting down to a glass of champagne, when the hummingbird appeared behind us.
Fiery-throated Hummingbird in Flight
RJB Colours of Costa Rica Tour
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Nectaring on Scabious, the lakeside meadows were awash with Scabious and Meadow Clary.
Lake Bohinj, June 2022
De retour d'un voyage à Cuba, où les colibris étaient très nombreux et actifs, volant d'arbre en arbre pour se nourrir du nectar des fleurs.
Back from a trip to Cuba, where hummingbirds were very numerous and active, flying from tree to tree to feed from the nectar of flowers.
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Puerto Padre, Cuba, 2015
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Wil Bloodworth let me borrow his Nikon TC AFS 20E III teleconverter....and this is one of the first test shots I took with it.
It doubles the effective range of my 70-200mm f/2.8 lens and in decent light there appears to be little degradation.
If you haven't "met" Wil via the magic of Flickr yet, I'd urge you to visit his photostream. He is a very talented photographer:
El picaflor garganta blanca o colibrà gargantilla (Leucochloris albicollis)
Beija-flor-papo-branco (Leucochloris albicollis)
Brazil, 2013
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vancouver island - female rufus
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During the summer, the ruby-throated hummingbirds buzz around the three feeders we have, and earlier this year, I was able to get some photos of them.
Ruby-throated hummingbirds leave in the late summer/early fall for their winter feeding grounds in Mexico - most of them, anyway. A few hang out along the Gulf coast, but after late September, you won't see any in middle Georgia or further north.
Most folks bring their feeders in by Labor Day or soon after, and put them away until spring and the expected return of the ruby-throats.
While researching when the real, true end of hummingbird season occurs in Georgia (for the first time - we'd decided to leave the feeders up as long as possible this year), it turned out that migrating ruby-throats could be dropping by throughout September.
I also learned that there are species of hummingbird that actually winter in Georgia! Who knew?
With that in mind, we'll be keeping feeders out all year long, possibly only bringing them in overnight on deep freeze nights - the birds drop into torpor during really cold times, anyway...
This evening, I was able to capture these images of this little lady who dropped by our feeders... this is a female roufus hummingbird, a group that mostly winters in Mexico but is increasingly found spending winters throughout the southeast US.
We'll keep an eye out, and try to catch others dropping in for a quick snack...
Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) is a medium-sized stocky hummingbird native to the west coast of North America. This bird was named after Anna Masséna, Duchess of Rivoli. In the early 20th century, Anna's hummingbird bred only in northern Baja California and southern California. The transplanting of exotic ornamental plants in residential areas throughout the Pacific coast and inland deserts provided expanded nectar and nesting sites, and the species was able to expand its breeding range greatly.
Anna's hummingbird is 3.9 to 4.3 in (9.9 to 10.9 cm) long. It has an iridescent bronze-green back, a pale grey chest and belly, and green flanks. Its bill is long, straight and slender. The adult male has an iridescent crimson-red derived from magenta to a reddish-pink crown and gorget, which can look dull brown or gray without direct sunlight, and a dark, slightly forked tail. Female Anna's hummingbirds also have iridescent red gorgets, though they are usually smaller and less brilliant than the males'. Anna's is the only North American hummingbird species with a red crown. Females and juvenile males have a dull green crown, a grey throat with or without some red iridescence, a grey chest and belly, and a dark, rounded tail with white tips on the outer feathers.
These birds feed on nectar from flowers using a long extendable tongue. They also consume small insects and other arthropods caught in flight or glean from vegetation. A PBS documentary shows how Anna's hummingbirds eat flying insects.[4] They aim for the flying insect, then open their beaks very wide. That technique has a greater success rate than trying to aim the end of a long beak at the insect. On rare occasions, bees and wasps may become impaled on the bill of an Anna's hummingbird, causing the bird to starve to death.
While collecting nectar, they also assist in plant pollination. This species sometimes consumes tree sap. The male's call is scratchy metallic, and it perches above head-level in trees and shrubs. They are frequently seen in backyards and parks, and commonly found at feeders and flowering plants.
A recent study found that the Anna's hummingbird can shake their bodies 55 times per second while in flight. This shimmy, when done in dry weather, can shake off pollen or dirt from their feathers similar to how a wet shake by a dog removes water. This rate of shaking is the fastest of any vertebrate on earth.