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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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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
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Life is sometimes pretty good. I was focusing on something else when this hummingbird pretty much landed in front of me. I just slowly backed-up a bit so I can fit it in the frame.
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
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....
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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.
Just spotted this odd flying creature, hovers like a hummingbird yet looks like a moth. May I present (thanks to google) The Hummingbird Hawk Moth. Only had my iPhone on me but not a bad image for a fast fluttering beastie!
Female Anna's Hummingbird. Anna's hummingbirds are the only hummingbirds to spend the winter in northern climates.
With the temperatures dropping to mid single digits over night the last three nights , these will be the last that we see here, the makes have been gone for several weeks already.
Ruby-throated hummingbirds, Rondeau provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, July 12, 2019.
Put out a oriole feeder and had 7 hummingbirds on it in minutes.
Then hung up the hummingbird feeder and had 5 more.
We have had as many as 30 in the yard at one time, but that's mid August.
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Ruby-throated Hummingbirds prefer to feed on red or orange flowers (though it's not necessary to color the sugar water you put in a hummingbird feeder). Like many birds, hummingbirds have good color vision and can see into the ultraviolet spectrum, which humans can’t see.