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A Ruby-throated Hummingbird probes the Bee Balm on a late summer afternoon. Clarence-Rockland, Ontario.
This individual has more fluffy feathers above and below its beak. There's one like this each year. The Black-chinned Hummingbirds have longer beaks than the Rufous.
I have always loved hummingbirds. When I was a kid, my very first tries at photography were of these little birds. I would wait at our hummingbird-feeder, standing deathly still (sometimes for an hour), waiting for one to fly over for a snack. If only I had had a zoom lens back then!
In my yard near Lititz Pennsylvania on September 9 2012.....I shot these late in the day just before sunset. The flower is 15 feet from the ground (on my deck) and the background is a tree line in the shade 250 feet behind the Hummer. As the light fell on the Hummer and flower it caused the background to under expose and blur.
Hummingbirds are hyper little critters. One can spend hours at feeding places, take hundreds of shots and still end up only with a digital dustbin full of blurs or perfectly sharp images of empty feeders. Then suddenly,when you are supposed to learn about butterflies, one decides to be the right little poser, sit there and show off for long enough. Perhaps it was just confused because being a butterfly-sized bird at a butterfly garden where the butterflies are the size of birds that can do that to you.