Archilochus colubris

Feasting on Mexican Firebush

Saturday summer shot

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

Tilden Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA

Albany Bulb, Albany, CA

Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding on a Mexican Sunflower.

With Black and Bloom Salvia

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

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Central Park, NYC, NY

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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)

Backyard

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

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

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

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

Ruby is an adult orangutan at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Ruby is the most curious of the group that lives there when it comes to humans. She will often sit and watch the zoo visitors go by for long periods of time without getting annoyed in the least, even when some adult shouts to their child, "Hey, look at the monkeys!' She is truly a great, great ape'. Texture in BG replaced the bland original. Thanks for looking.

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

Nikon Z 9, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/6.3, 1/1250, ISO 360. Young male. View Large.

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.

- Ys&Ys: Sally BOM skin (Tone 00) on Lelutka Nova 2.5 bento head

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- Lelutka: Nova Bento head 2.5 -Evolution Line- (More Info)

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- Yomi: Ruby Hair

@Anthem March round

- IDTTY Faces: Fire Signs make up Collection

@Skin Fair 2021

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- Ladybird: Maple Tattoo

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- Ascendant: Kimmy Nails + Ring

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- Avi-Glam: Eternity Eyes (Ink)

@Skin Fair 2021

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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.

Maine

Ruby-throated hummingbird sipping on salvia

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

Ruby-throated hummingbird in the front yard.

Connecticut

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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

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/6.3, 1/640, ISO 1100. View Large.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) RCKI

I don't know if this happens to anyone else....but sometimes when I finally see a bird I have been unsuccessfully looking for....all of a sudden I see them everywhere! I think in my case looking at images just doesn't make a bird easier to find....but once I finally see one and get to photograph it, it somehow sticks in my brain. These little guys are a lot more common than I imagined! And at last one gave me a little view of how they get their name!

On the dead branch that I put in the garden as a perch.

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)