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15th October 2020

Archilochus colubris

Summertime and the living is easy

A couple of summer posts for weekend seem especially warranted by the strong winds, blowing snow and bleakness of our second day in December.

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/8, 1/1000, ISO 2000. Male. View Large.

With Black and Bloom Salvia

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/6.3, 1/640, ISO 2500. View Large.

Albany Bulb, Albany, CA

Isle lake Alberta

Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding on a Mexican Sunflower.

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Long Island, New York

Ruby throated Hummingbird immature male.

On Explore

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

As seen around our garden for a week.

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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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Long Island, NY

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

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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

Happy Wednesday! HBW!

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Black and Bloom Salvia perennials proved to be strong hummingbird plants. I hope that they will attract clearwing moths and butterfiles too next year.

Jewel Lake, Tilden Nature Area, Berkeley, CA

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/2000, f/6.3, ISO 560. Male. View Large.

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

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/500, f/6.3, ISO 1100. View Large.

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/1600, f/6.3, ISO 1100. View Large.

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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Backyard

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.

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.

Male - wild - at Potengi - Ceará.

The sun turned ruby, colored the sea with a broad red brush stroke, and set the whole sky in flame.

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

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Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/6.3, 1/320, ISO 3200. View Large.

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