Ruby Throated Hummingbirds
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A couple of summer posts for weekend seem especially warranted by the strong winds, blowing snow and bleakness of our second day in December.
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Long Island, New York
Tilden Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA
I was at the Botanic Garden with my wife, who was doing an extended bird survey of the Garden with three of her fellow docents. It was a pleasant spring morning weather. This handsome male was preening himself extensively on a branch by the pond, displaying the largest ruby crown that any of us had ever seen (not quite captured in this picture). He was also vocalizing and calling actively now and then.
Early spring arrival to Southern Ontario. These are restless, acrobatic birds that move quickly through foliage, typically at lower and middle levels. They flick their wings almost constantly as they go. This makes them very difficult to photograph. (Cornell Lab)
Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/8, 1/1000, ISO 800. Juvenile male and a bug. View Large.
Spotted this migrating Ruby-crowned Kinglet along the Grindstone Marsh Trail during an October hike in the Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, Ontario.
(Regulus calendula)
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Central Park, NYC, NY
Male - At Potengi - Ceará - The Ruby-topaz Hummingbird is a much coveted gem of circum-Amazonian savanna habitats from Colombia east through Venezuela, the Guianas, south through Brazil and west to eastern Bolivia. It is a very small hummingbird, but with a brilliant ruby crown and nape, iridescent gold throat and breast and bright orange tail and is luckily, quite common throughout its range. It forages for the nectar of flowering shrubs from the understory to tree tops in open country but also in cultivated areas and gardens. birdsoftheworld.org
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I love these little sweeties with their lovely delicate singing. Never remaining still definitely makes them not easy to photograph.
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The Ruby-crowned Kinglet is a tiny bird that lays a very large clutch of eggs—there can be up to 12 in a single nest. Although the eggs themselves weigh only about a fiftieth of an ounce, an entire clutch can weigh as much as the female herself.
Ruby-crowned Kinglets seem nervous as they flit through the foliage, flicking their wings nearly constantly. Keeping an eye out for this habit can be a useful aid to identifying kinglets.
Metabolic studies on Ruby-crowned Kinglets suggest that these tiny birds use only about 10 calories (technically, kilocalories) per day.
The oldest known Ruby-crowned Kinglet was a female, and at least 8 years, 8 months old, when she was recaptured and rereleased during banding operations in Texas in 2017. She was banded in the same state in 2008.
I am finally posting a hummingbird photo from my garden. Having software issues with my new computer, so hopefully this turns out as I have never used it before.
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They have a highly audible song for such a small bird. It took several minutes before I could locate him as he sang a few phrases from one place, and then started again in another location. Luckily for me, he flew down to an open perch very close where he sang and raised his crown.
It was a bright overcast backlight situation. I was close enough to get detail though, and I really like the way those red crown feathers were lighted from behind.
If you have never heard its song, Check the link below.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet/sounds
Beaumaris Lake. Edmonton, Alberta.
A Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) rests on a branch near a feeder in the suburbs of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
10 August, 2010.
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This is Ruby. One of the pair I have been following for some time now. Ruby is a bit cautious around this time, probably pregnant.
Image shot as it is on Nikon series E 1:4 F=70-210mm
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March 2021
I caught this juvenile taking nectar from a Scarlet Runner in Peter Stahl's flower garden.
Isle Lake. Parkland County, Alberta.
It’s about this time that I start getting a little antsy waiting for Spring migration to kick off, so rather than posting endless ducks, for one week I’ll jump back to last year and highlight some of my fav photos that I edited much later in the year. Spring usually means a flurry of activity and I much prefer to be outside birding and photographing than inside editing, even in harsh conditions as I equally enjoy both aspects of the hobby. So kicking it off here is a nice Ruby Crowned Kinglet that posed briefly in some shrubbery.
This one was feeding between the raised beds and gave me a clean background. Very nice of it. 😉
Kent County, Michigan
Female hummingbird enjoying some Turk's Cap flowers while spending a few days in my area on its Fall Migration South. Richmond, Texas (Archilochus colubris)