This is the name of a variety of red cactus which are very popular.

Ruby Throated Hummingbird in my garden 9/11/2022.

(Archilochus colubris) We don't get hummingbirds in the UK so any sighting is, for me, a great experience!

Summertime and the living is easy

Feasting on Mexican Firebush

Saturday summer shot

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/8, 1/8000, ISO 6400. Male. View Large.

With Black and Bloom Salvia

Albany Bulb, Albany, CA

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/8, 1/1000, ISO 800. Juvenile male and a bug. View Large.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding on a Mexican Sunflower.

Ruby throated Hummingbird immature male.

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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.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/500, f/8, ISO 6400. Feeding two chicks, nest is about 2 inches wide (5 cm). View Large.

Ruby Beach is part of the Olympic National Park, "the northernmost beach in the southern part of the coastal section," according to Wikipedia. The park has two strips of coast, which are disconnected from the main body of the park.

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)

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Stick Pond

St John's NL

Nikon Z 9, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/6.3, 1/2000, ISO 1250. Male. View Large.

I love these little sweeties with their lovely delicate singing. Never remaining still definitely makes them not easy to photograph.

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Backyard

Nikon Z 9, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/6.3, 1/500, ISO 250. Male. View Large.

One of this years birds on a Butterfly Bush flower in my garden.

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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.

Ruby is an adult orangutan at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Ruby is the most curious of the group that lives there when it comes to humans. She will often sit and watch the zoo visitors go by for long periods of time without getting annoyed in the least, even when some adult shouts to their child, "Hey, look at the monkeys!' She is truly a great, great ape'. Texture in BG replaced the bland original. Thanks for looking.

I spotted this ruby crowned kinglet flitting around in a bush. It kept moving until it took a good look at me, then moved away into the woods.

Finally after close to a month of trips to go see her, The chicks make an appearance. They can't be more then a couple days old. Might be the first time I shot anything above 5.6. It was very tough to get focus, A fill flash was used

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Every year we get to see a few of these Eastern hummingbirds in West Texas.

Nikon Z 9, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/6.3, 1/1250, ISO 360. Young male. View Large.

Minocqua, Wisconsin

Spotted this ruby crowned kinglet at Commonwealth Lake, and actually got a small look at that ruby crown!

Maine

Sipping the nectar of the gods

In my backyard

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Ruby-crowned Kinglet at Barber Park, Boise, Idaho

I just spotted another RTHU, so they are still here. We're getting lots of bird activity this morning, along with drizzly weather. Winter birds should be arriving soon- I've seen reports of both juncos and White-throated sparrows in the area. The seasons are changing! Glendale, Missouri

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet at the Idaho Botanical Gardens, Boise, Idaho

This one was feeding between the raised beds and gave me a clean background. Very nice of it. 😉

Kent County, Michigan

ruby crowned kinglet

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.

From the archives.

Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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