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

RHS Hyde hall

15th October 2020

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

With Black and Bloom Salvia

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.

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)

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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Long Island, NY

juvenile ruby-throated hummingbird

In the garden

Lowell Township, Michigan

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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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Backyard

Nikon Z 9, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/8, 1/2500, ISO 3200. View Large.

In our garden.

A shot from last day in September. Mostly all of them migrated South. It is going to be a long wait to see them in Spring again.

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

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Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 300mm, f/6.3, 1/800, ISO 1400. 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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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.

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.

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

Minocqua, Wisconsin

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

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

Brighton 🇬🇧

March 2021

Minocqua, Wisconsin

Minocqua, Wisconsin

Sipping the nectar of the gods

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Ruby-crowned Kinglet at Barber Park, Boise, Idaho

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 450mm, f/7.1, 1/250, ISO 800. View Large.

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-throated hummingbird

in the garden

Kent County, Michigan