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After a lull in hummingbird activity in the area for several weeks, I'm thrilled to be hosting three juvenile Anna's hummingbird in my yard. They have been the sweetest joy to watch grow and thrive. They change so quickly & are now busy practicing territorial displays with each other, an adult Rufous Hummingbird male & and an adult Anna's male.
A Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) in the hummingbird aviary of the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
One hummingbird landed and held onto the stalk for some time. It wasn't feeding so I'm not sure what was going on. The other hummers were having lots of staring contests but no overt fighting, though they really liked feeding on these flowers.
Photographed May 12th in Costa Rica on tour with Neotropic Photo Tours, led by Juan Carlos Vindas.
One of the joys of the cottage we visit in North Frontenac every year is breeding Hummingbirds. I have had occasion to climb on roofs to try to capture these birds, whose size makes proximity a key to any photograph, and whose skittishness makes that proximity tough. In this summer of rain and wind, getting close was hard, but getting a bird still enough to photograph was harder still. I really liked this image, as the bird fights the wind and rain and I fight a moving bird and crappy light. It is a great memory of the environment this summer. And it has a lot of the Hummingbird character - tough and colourful.
An Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) in perfect harmony with the lichen covered tree branch. Saanich, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Hummingbird in my backyard. They have been very active recently. I have Rufous, Anna's and Black-chinned Hummingbirds now but the Rufous and Black-chined will be flying south soon. was lucky to get all 3 species in a single day. Many are likely flying south now. Some of the Anna's will stay all winter. West Valley area, Yakima County, Washington. IMG_9788
Every year, we get a lot of them on their way to migration...I can never get enough watching them, and, what else....taking tones of pictures. I have 4-6 feeders out there, and have to fill them twice a day..but I don't mind at all.
Hope you like this pic of my captures. Oh, the blueish look on the wing and the beak..came this way out of the camera. Don't know how this happened....
Thanks for taking the time to stop by, and have a great weekend.
The annual Hummingbird Festival at Strawberry Plains Audubon Center begins Friday, September 8, and runs through Sunday, September 10. This is a festival featuring numerous speakers on a myriad of topics. Hummingbird banding is a huge treat for the visitors.
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After quite a while sitting and waiting patiently, together with many discarded photos, I managed to capture one of this hummingbird that I was satisfied with.
A female Ruby-throated hummingbird flexing its wings at The Oven in Central Park, New York City.
Hummingbird is a small nectar-feeding tropical bird that is able to hover and fly backward, typically having colorful iridescent plumage.
They are small birds, with most species measuring 7.5–13 cm (3–5 in) in length.
They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings, which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in midair at rapid wing-flapping rates, which vary from around 12 beats per second in the largest species to around 80 per second in small hummingbirds. Of those species that have been measured during flying in wind tunnels, their top speeds exceed 15 m/s (54 km/h; 34 mph). During courtship, some male species dive from 30 metres (100 ft) of height above a female at speeds around 23 m/s (83 km/h; 51 mph).
--- wikipedia
New arrival. This hummingbird preferred the red feeder. I have two feeders out; both with sugar/water mixture. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Morgan County, Alabama - 2017
Feisty little birds. Male Anna's hummingbird. Interestingly (at least to me) the feathers of that red gorget don't actually have any pigment at all. They're iridescent. The surface of the feathers have tiny bubbles that reflect some wavelengths of light, and absorb others. In the case of the Anna's hummingbird, the gorget reflects red and the body feathers reflect green. Nature is pretty cool
The first time I have ever seen a Hummingbird and I don't have my shutter speed fast enough. This is the only one that was sort of in focus.
Our tour finishes tomorrow and we have two days in Vancouver before flying home. It has been wonderful, but we are both feeling weary and it will be good to go home.