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

(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

at the salvia

Saturday summer shot

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

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

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

Minocqua, Wisconsin

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

While exploring Washington State back roads, I came across this abandoned silver mine known as the Old Ruby (Pyrargyrite) Mine. Along with the mill there are several other buildings on the property, maintenance shop, blacksmith shop and forge, office, bunkhouse and powder magazine. The mill is empty now, and so is the powder magazine.

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

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

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/2000, f/6.3, ISO 500. Female. View Large.

Maine

Minocqua, Wisconsin

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

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)

Looks more copper in this light.

On his favorite perch.

Lowell, Michigan

ruby crowned kinglet