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Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park
Washington
This sunset was taken at Ruby Beach, part of a set of beaches that are within Olympic National Park. The rock outcroppings and sea stacks are unique to each area of the coast. By choosing different tides and times of years, opportunities for composition at these ocean sites are unlimited!
A ruby‑crowned kinglet may be tiny, but its winter physiology is remarkably engineered for the severe cold that settles over its winter habitat in the Oklahoma Cross Timbers. When Arctic air pushes through the post oaks and blackjacks, the kinglet increases its metabolic rate to one of the highest recorded in any songbird, burning calories at a rapid pace to maintain core temperature. Its contour feathers loft into a dense insulating layer, reducing heat loss.
Throughout the day, it forages almost nonstop, gleaning dormant insects, eggs, and spiders from bark crevices and cedar foliage—micro‑prey that provide the high‑energy intake needed to offset nighttime losses. At dusk, it seeks dense cover in thickets or cedar trees, where the wind chill effect is less.
A master of microhabitats and metabolic precision, thriving in winter’s harshest conditions.
Morning fog hovers over Lake Irwin as the peaks of the Ruby Range reflect in its waters during a glorious sunrise. I captured this near Crested Butte, Colorado a couple of weeks ago.
Another view of Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA. I tried to choose the point of view so that the sun, which only sometimes broke through the fog, is reflected exactly in the puddle in front.
Ruby Beach has beautiful rocks and an enormous amount of driftwood. The sand on the beach contains ruby-like crystals, hence the name.
The hummingbird activity has finally started to accelerate as they prepare to head south for migration. This is just one of several adult males in my backyard.
La actividad de los colibrís se ha accelerado finalmente mientras que se preparan para dirigirse al sur para su migración. Éste es sólo uno de los machos que se encuentran en mi patio trasero ahora.
Sunrise over the Ruby Range from a small pond in the wilderness. Raggeds Wilderness, Colorado - October 2022
Ektar 100 4x5, 125mm lens
4 seconds at f32, no filters
A rugged coastline, a place to stroll among the giant boulders, marvel at the rugged coastline or simply sit on a log and revel in the fresh salt air. Like many beaches in the Olympic State Park, above the surf line are the trunks of hundreds of trees that have either escaped from log rafts or have fallen from the eroded shoreline. These cedar, redwood, and hemlock giants, many with diameters of more than six feet across, are tossed about like pickup sticks. While it’s frightening to imagine the power of the waves that put these massive logs here, on a clear, sunny day, they are a playground in themselves. Decades of sandblasting and wave action have warn the bark off of these trees, making them smooth and comfortable to sit and walk on.
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Checking out nooks and crannies in a fence post! They move so fast, and rarely pause for long!
Lyth Hill - Shropshire
A male Ruby-tailed Wasp. This is a composite of several images; combined using Zerene Stacker. Haven't seen many of these in the garden this year.
Ruby-tailed wasps are cuckoo wasps. The females lay their eggs in the nests of other solitary bee and wasp species.
Ruby-throated hummingbirds, Rondeau provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, July 12, 2019.
Put out a oriole feeder and had 7 hummingbirds on it in minutes.
Then hung up the hummingbird feeder and had 5 more.
We have had as many as 30 in the yard at one time, but that's mid August.
Archilochus colubris
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds prefer to feed on red or orange flowers (though it's not necessary to color the sugar water you put in a hummingbird feeder). Like many birds, hummingbirds have good color vision and can see into the ultraviolet spectrum, which humans can’t see.
Oh my goodness! This is a lifer for my yard birds. I've only seen one other bird of this species, and only got one shot of it (Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive 2016). This was in the front yard, in God's garden, playing in the sprinklers on the Simpson's Stopper bush. Am I blessed or what! Thank You, Jesus.
This is such a great bird for me (practically homebound). This is at the same time as the Orange-crowned Warbler! Isn't that just something!
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Ruby Beach ist auf der Olympic Halbinsel an der Südseite des Olympic National Parks gelegen.
Ruby Beach hat seinen Namen von den rosafarbenen Edelstein-Fragmenten, die man im grauen Sand findet.
Als Teil des Olympic National Park bietet die Küste von Ruby Beach eine wunderschöne Aussicht über Berge, Gletscher, Regenwälder und jede Menge Wildnis.
1981 erklärte ihn die UNESCO zum Weltnaturerbe.
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Winter residents in Central Oklahoma. Seeing them in several locations, think we have good numbers this year. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
The ruby-throated hummingbird is a species of hummingbird that generally spends the winter in Central America, Mexico, and Florida, and migrates to Canada and other parts of Eastern North America for the summer to breed. It is by far the most common hummingbird seen east of the Mississippi River in North America. Wikipedia
I was wandering around Fishtrap Creek Park yesterday and I saw and heard many Golden-crowned Kinglets but this was the only Ruby-crowned I saw. A very similar bird, the Hutton's Vireo was seen by someone else the same day. But with the sharp beak and the ruby stripe on it's head I am pretty sure it is a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
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We were birding out in the Cross Timber oaks when this little male flew in and landed in front of us. Sat there preening for several minutes. Unfortunately, the sun was at his back, so we didn't get to see that beautiful ruby-colored throat.
Our beautiful world, pass it on.