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I 've really been focused on landscapes lately, but I've had a number of requests to post another of my hummingbird shots.
This is one of my recent favorites. This little beauty reminds me of a ballerina gracefully facing a hushed audience. Just amazing little creatures!
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Jeff
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It's the flowers that made me post this one. I liked finding a hummingbird on lavender flowers rather than on red or white ones or at a commercial feeder. I keep wondering why the influx of so-o-o many hummingbirds this year and why their arrival was delayed until mid August.
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I"m pissed - Ruby- throated Hummingbird - 07.09.2020. This bird is very territorial. Does not let anyone near the feeder. When I stop by to see if they has food, she flies close to my ear and when her food runs out, she comes looking for me at the window. - 07.09.2020.
A Ruby-throated hummingbird feeding from a sunflower. In my area we are near the end of the migration season for RTH as they return to their winter home in Central America. Such an incredible journey for this tiny atom of life! It's incredible that many fly non-stop across the gulf of Mexico from Florida to the Yucatan!
Tis the season of gardening. Keeping in tune I purchased a water fountain I'd been wanting for years and had it laying dis-assembled in a flower bed. We'd had a dry spell so I turned on the hose to water some flowers. This fellow showed up almost immediately plopping himself on the edge of the basin to bathe in the spray. He couldn't have been more than 5 feet from me initially. Now where's the camera?! He departed and I went inside to get the camera "just in case". Sure enough, when I turned the hose on again he came back....the challenge was holding the camera and 3lb lens in one hand and the hose in the other! Only two shots had any decent focus but a few moments I won't forget for a long time :))
For these guys I'm setting on a chair in the shade and shooting out in the sun.
This is my fave way to shoot have a sandwich and drink and spend a hour.
So many battles with the young ones this ruffled feathered male Ruby Throat is starting to think about migrating.
Males with full ruby throats are so rare at the English Garden, Winnipeg's main hummingbird accumulation spot during the out migration, that I had never seen one in 5 migrations until now. Males migrate much sooner than females and traditionally by-pass the Garden.
This fellow was being harassed repeatedly by females, which made him much harder to photograph.
In deep - Lovely to have these beautiful almost prehistoric looking birds visit my backyard. They are a wonder.
The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is eastern North America’s sole breeding hummingbird. These brilliant, tiny, precision-flying creatures glitter like jewels in the full sun, then vanish with a zip toward the next nectar source.
- All about Birds
This image and the previous 4 images were taken at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
July 5, 2022
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