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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.
There's a very special place in Patagonia, Arizona - the backyard of the Paton family and now the Tucson Audubon's Paton Center for Hummingbirds. I had a chance to spend a few hours there, talking with fellow birders and photographers and seeing species after species of hummingbirds on their spring migration. This broad-billed hummingbird was one of the favorites of my visit.
Spotted this hummingbird in the pine tree in the backyard. It was enjoying the evening sunshine. The light was hitting the feathers bringing out the green colour. Truly amazing.
This is a huge crop ... taken with my 100mm macro lens from about 15' away. I just love these tiny hummers. They have a nest in the holly bush in the corner of my garden and are constant visitors year 'round at this feeder. The 'flower' on the feeder is only 2 1/2" diameter.
Happy Wednesday everyone ... many thanks for your visits and comments, dear friends and visitors.
Peace Valley Park, Pa.
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An Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) in perfect harmony with the lichen covered tree branch. Saanich, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
I came across 5 Anna's Hummingbirds at the feeders at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve. Nobody was feeding but they were chasing each other off the favorite perches.
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.
From last Spring, although it could have been today in mid-October - the flowers are outrageous once more. I hacked those Mexican Sage way down and they came back twice as big I think, flowers doing really well right now. So, I'm tending toward Rufous on this guy but could be Allen's. Several hummers playing chase today and my take didn't top the ones I took last May, so here it is.
Note the wingspan difference with the condor I posted yesterday: hummer about 4.5 inches, condor 109. So if you lined up 24 hummingbirds with the wings outstretched, they would fit nicely on the shoulders of a soaring condor.
The smallest hummingbird within its range, is found only in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama.
In La Boca near Trinidad on Cuba, this little, cute Hummingbird visited us and the flowers around every day. We just had to sit in our swing chairs at our a patio and had to wait for him coming. But as long as it has taken sometimes until he came, as fast he bustled around and flied away. Sometimes he looked like a flash.
What you can see on the picture was the only time I have seen him just sitting around and relaxing for a minute.
P1690123 - Loten's Sunbird - Size - 13 cm
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The Loten's sunbird, long-billed sunbird or maroon-breasted sunbird, (Cinnyris lotenius) is a sunbird endemic to peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Its long bill distinguishes it from the similar purple sunbird that is found in the same areas and also tends to hover at flowers. Like other sunbirds, it feeds on small insects and builds characteristic hanging nests.
The species is named after a colonial Dutch governor of Ceylon, Joan Gideon Loten.
DO YOU KNOW - Less than 100 Pygmy Sloths Survive.
The Pygmy Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) - is one of the world's most endangered mammals, according to a detailed survey of the population, which found less than 100 sloths hanging on in their island home. (May 24, 2012).
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