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A rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) feeding on a flowering gum (Corymbia)
f/5.6 ISO 400 1/800 100mm Pentax DFA f/2.8 Pentax K-5
... with a really rare customer in our garden - only seen about 3 times in more than 20 years!
Hummingbird hawk-moth / Taubenschwänzchen (Macroglossum stellatarum) at one of the last dahlia blossoms ‘Bishop of Canterbury’
in our autumnal garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
'Apricot Nectar' floribunda rose.
Photographed, at Roxborough Park, Castle Hill (Sydney), in December of 2021 but never before processed or posted.
Previously, in March 2023, I posted an image of a cluster of Apricot Nectar roses, but not an individual rose like this one.
These are floribunda roses, not hybrid teas, and so they grow in clusters and they do not appear, as much, as individual blooms.
'Apricot Nectar' is a floribunda rose that was first grown in 1964, in the USA, by Eugene Boerner. It was then introduced to the world in 1965 by US rose cultivators Jackson and Perkins. It won the prestigious 'All American Rose Selection Award' in 1966. It is, arguably, one of America's greatest roses. It is currently (2023) the third best selling rose in Australia.
Photographed at the Roxborough Park Rose Gardens.
Castle Hill. The Hills District. North-western Sydney.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
No filters.
This beautiful Neotropical hummingbird has been reclassified since I saw it nectaring at a feeder in Panama. The Blue-chested Hummingbird (Polyerata amabilis) was formerly placed in the genus Amazilia. It is also found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Nicaragua, but its numbers are sadly decreasing. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest.
Males – like this one – form leks to try to gain the attention of females during the breeding season.
Boisson au goût de miel, destinée aux dieux qui confère l'immortalité aux hommes qui en consomment...
Je sens que je vais aller me rouler dans l' herbe de mon jardin 😂...après cette journée au bureau !
I heard the chattering of the rainbow lorikeets before I saw them high up this gum tree. Taken on an overcast day at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.
Best view enlarged.
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Peaceful Sunday
Miss Phoebe, one of our resident female Anna's Hummingbird, sipping nectar. This time she chose our Amistad Salvia for her after dinner snack!!
An 'Apricot Nectar' floribunda rose photographed at the Roxborough Park Rose Gardens, in the Hills District of Sydney.
'Apricot Nectar' is a floribunda rose that was first grown in 1964, in the USA, by Eugene Boerner. It was then introduced to the world in 1965 by US rose cultivators Jackson and Perkins. It won the prestigious 'All American Rose Selection Award' in 1966. It is, arguably, one of America's greatest roses. It is currently (2023) the third best selling rose in Australia.
Photographed at the Roxborough Park Rose Gardens.
Castle Hill. Hills District. North-western Sydney.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
This is 'Apricot Nectar'.
A floribunda rose.
In the last slithers of sunshine.
Tuesday evening, 14th December, 2021.
Roxborough Park Rose Gardens.
Alfred Whalan Reserve.
Castle Hill, The Hills District.
North-western Sydney.
My Canon EOS 5D, Mk IV, with the Canon EF 100mm macro f 2.8/L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
Miss Penelope, one of our resident female Anna's Hummingbirds, sipping nectar! She is enjoying our George Davidson Crocosmia flowers.
A male Anna's Hummingbird enjoying the nectar from a Red Flowering Currant plant. Photo taken near Shillapoo Lake, at the end of Lower River Road!
Apricot Nectar hybrid tea rose photographed in the late afternoon at Roxborough Park Rose Gardens, Baulkham Hills, north-western Sydney.
Canon 5D Mk IV with a Canon 100mm macro lens.
A female Rufous Hummingbird sipping nectar from our George Davidson Crocosmia. She was enjoying the afternoon sunshine and nectar from our flowers. There were six Rufous Hummingbirds zipping around our yard!
Sipping nectar from my petunias. I have about 5 baskets of petunias hanging where my hummingbird feeders are. That way I can get the occasional hummer that is drinking nectar from the flowers rather than the feeders. I particularly liked this shot.
These birds are probably one of the biggest challenges to photograph. Their speed is so incredible, their movements so erratic, they of course very rarely stay in one spot for long and they are so tiny.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, large subjects are simple to photograph in action, but these guys make one take action photography to a whole new level
This photo was taken milliseconds after yesterday's Rufous hummingbird photo. The Rufous Hummingbird is ambushed by a Black-chinned Hummingbird.
Rather than cut the roadside grass verges, the local council have seeded them with wildflowers. Beautiful and good for the bees.
I took this last year on a visit to Amsterdam, in the botanical gardens there. I asked this butterfly if it minded if I took it's picture and it was only too happy to oblige. It even posed for me while it was having it's lunch. Sometimes all you have to do is ask!
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
"A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar..."
-Diane Ackerman
Whoot, Congrats USA Women's Soccer 2019 Champions!
my favorite lily is blooming :)
happy sliderssunday!
There's nectar deep down there. And pollen grains on the way. A secret purple world. A look inside the cotton thistle flower of the previous image:
“...lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring...”
― Sue Hubbell
I am off to get my hair all cut off, it's too hot! :)
will come visit your photostreams a bit later
have a fabulous weekend my friends,
'Apricot Nectar' hybrid tea-rose at Roxborough Park Rose Gardens, Baulkham Hills, northwestern Sydney, New South Wales. Photographed some time ago now with a Canon 60D and a Canon 100mm macro lens. Re-edited this evening, Thursday 20th May 2020, in my new Adobe Creative Cloud 'Lightroom' software.
Cheers from Sydney!!
An 'Apricot Nectar' floribunda rose at the Wahroonga Park Rose Gardens in northern Sydney.
Corner of Millewa Avenue and Coonabarra Road, Wahroonga.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon f 2.8 L 100mm macro lens