This is the name of a variety of red cactus which are very popular.

Ruby Throated Hummingbird in my garden 9/11/2022.

Archilochus colubris

(Archilochus colubris) We don't get hummingbirds in the UK so any sighting is, for me, a great experience!

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

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

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/6.3, 1/640, ISO 2500. View Large.

Isle lake Alberta

Albany Bulb, Albany, CA

Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding on a Mexican Sunflower.

Ruby throated Hummingbird immature male.

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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Long Island, New York

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)

The Ruby-crowned Kinglet is a tiny bird that lays a very large clutch of eggs—there can be up to 12 in a single nest. Although the eggs themselves weigh only about a fiftieth of an ounce, an entire clutch can weigh as much as the female herself.

Ruby-crowned Kinglets seem nervous as they flit through the foliage, flicking their wings nearly constantly. Keeping an eye out for this habit can be a useful aid to identifying kinglets.

Metabolic studies on Ruby-crowned Kinglets suggest that these tiny birds use only about 10 calories (technically, kilocalories) per day.

The oldest known Ruby-crowned Kinglet was a female, and at least 8 years, 8 months old, when she was recaptured and rereleased during banding operations in Texas in 2017. She was banded in the same state in 2008.

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.

As seen around our garden for a week.

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

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

Jewel Lake, Tilden Nature Area, Berkeley, CA

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

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Minocqua, Wisconsin

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

I love these little sweeties with their lovely delicate singing. Never remaining still definitely makes them not easy to photograph.

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Connecticut

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

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

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/2000, f/6.3, ISO 500. Female. View Large.

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 sipping on salvia

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

ruby-throated hummingbird

in the garden

Kent County, Michigan

heading for the feeder

You can see the ruby feathers just beginning to develop.

Kent County, Michigan

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)

From the archives.

Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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