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

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.

With Black and Bloom Salvia

Tilden Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA

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

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 immature male.

On Explore

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)

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/8, 1/1000, ISO 800. Juvenile male and a bug. View Large.

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

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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Saw this Ruby-crowned kinglet in with a flock of bushtits in a bush next to me. The first I've seen one of these beauties in quite some time!

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/500, f/6.3, ISO 1100. View Large.

Backyard

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

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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.

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

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

Minocqua, Wisconsin

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

Connecticut

Maine

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-crowned Kinglet at Barber Park, Boise, Idaho

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I caught this juvenile taking nectar from a Scarlet Runner in Peter Stahl's flower garden.

Isle Lake. Parkland County, Alberta.

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet at the Idaho Botanical Gardens, Boise, Idaho

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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

ruby-throated hummingbird

in the garden

Kent County, Michigan

This one was feeding between the raised beds and gave me a clean background. Very nice of it. 😉

Kent County, Michigan

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

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

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)

I waited all summer to capture a Hummingbird in my yard, and today was the day he/she hung around long enough for me to take a few shots!!

Regulus calendula - LOVES suet and mealworms - Migratory - I have many that stay the winter but they leave in the spring.