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Celebrating our ruby reunion at Kadkani River Resort with a special guest: the purple-rumped sunbird! ✨ Its iridescent hues and energetic flitting perfectly mirror the joy of reconnecting with the class of '84 after 40 years.
We got to Ruby beach a little late so we didn't do a lot of exploring. I haven't spent that much time at the beach so I guess this would would be called a really large tide pool. Either way it offered some nice reflections with just a little color.
My first Explore photo - July 23, 2011
I'm never going to pass on a shot of a kinglet with his crest exposed. This little male was really fired up and gave me several opportunities. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
This is one of two hummingbirds continuing to fatten up in the backyard setup.
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"You listen to me. All the sugar-water in these parts belongs to me, so you can just move along!" This male ruby-throated held watch over several feeders from this curved limb for a few days. He challenged any who dared to try and get a sip.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas during October 2019
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.
This teeny female survived a week or so of frigid weather in the Oklahoma Cross Timbers. But the sun is shining today, and the 7-day forecast looks like spring. She deserves a break!
Our beautiful world, pass it on.
12,644 ft. Ruby Peak and 13,058 ft. Mount Owen rise above a forest of aspen and pine near Kebler Pass, Colorado. The famous and often photographed volcanic dyke known as "The Dyke" extends east from Ruby Mountain above a classic stand of red aspen trees, one of the rarely finds in Colorado. This was a really magical sunset and I was happy to have found a great place to witness it west of Crested Butte, Colorado.
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Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington
A view of Ruby Beach just before descending the path to the beach.
A ruby crowned kinglet hops around in a tree as spring clouds roll in.
Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington State, USA
Ruby-throated hummingbird.
A regular visitor to the colourful cartoon like feeders, alerting to their presence with the distinctive humming sounds from their rapidly beating wings.
Long distance migrants from Central America, Mexico, and Florida. Weighing up to 6 g some birds cross the Gulf of Mexico in an epic 500 mile flight. They are so small that some have been known to be predated by large invertebrates suh as Orb weaver spiders, praying mantis and even Green Darners, a large dragonfly. (wikisteal)
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.
South Padre Island _Mar 29th
This was our last full day of birding! We had returned to the Birding Center in the morning and thoroughly enjoyed it.
While we were there someone told Anne about a small local place that held promise. It's one of those timing things! We did not see very much but it was nice of them to tell us. The gentleman who had led the morning tour at the WBC actually showed up there too! That was so kind of him!
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The ruby-crown was not showing. It is only present on the males, but they don't show it off unless trying to impress or warn something. Anyway, they are cute little birds that visit us during winter and I'm always happy to see and hear them.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas in February 2022
The sun turned ruby, colored the sea with a broad yellowish brush stroke, and set the whole sky in flame.
Ruby Tuesday
The Rolling Stones
She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don't matter if it's gone
While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows, she comes and goes
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
Don't question why she needs to be so free
She'll tell you it's the only way to be
She just can't be chained
To a life where nothing's gained
Or nothing's lost, at such a cost
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
Got home from work at 11pm last night, and the possibility of a pretty good forecast sunrise was too much to pass up on for the following Tuesday morning.
Out of bed again at 4:45am, and a 1 hr 15 min drive later, we were standing at Avalon rockpool, shooting away.
Well worth the early rise and trip.
However....
I now have to go back to work in approximately two hours time...!!
Godammit!!!
Anyhow, hope you like "Ruby Tuesday"
Cheers, Mike
A male ruby-throated hummingbird samples the nectar in a white pentas. The white pollen on his head is from our Rose of Sharon.
Midtown Tulsa, OK
One of the joys of the cottage we visit in North Frontenac every year is breeding Hummingbirds. I have had occasion to climb on roofs to try to capture these birds, whose size makes proximity a key to any photograph, and whose skittishness makes that proximity tough. In this summer of rain and wind, getting close was hard, but getting a bird still enough to photograph was harder still. I really liked this image, as the bird fights the wind and rain and I fight a moving bird and crappy light. It is a great memory of the environment this summer. And it has a lot of the Hummingbird character - tough and colourful.
Ruby-crowned Kinglets are tiny songbirds with relatively large heads, almost no neck, and thin tails. They have very small, thin, straight bills.
They are olive-green birds with a prominent white eyeing and white wingbar. The wingbar contrasts with an adjacent blackish bar in the wing. The 'ruby crown' of the male is only occasionally visible.
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.
--- allaboutbirds.org