Color Escape: JEWEL TONES
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Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/8, 1/1000, ISO 800. Juvenile male and a bug. View Large.
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.
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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Black and Bloom Salvia perennials proved to be strong hummingbird plants. I hope that they will attract clearwing moths and butterfiles too next year.
I love these little sweeties with their lovely delicate singing. Never remaining still definitely makes them not easy to photograph.
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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.
Capturing sharp images of hummingbirds in flight is very difficult and requires a lot of patience, preplanning and luck. I was lucky to capture this small female Ruby Throated Hummingbird in flight near a bird feeder at a cottage outside of Ottawa, Ontario. As you can appreciate, my ratio of keepers to rejects was very low.
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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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.
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
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.
In my backyard
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