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Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington
A view of Ruby Beach just before descending the path to the beach.
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.
Yesterday I managed a shot I'e been after for years. Which was a proper stacked shot of a ruby tailed wasp in natural light. I've become a big fan of not using flash in macro photography because of the impact on colours. They look so much more natural in natural light. Anyway I wanted to share a bigger version of the file as compared to what I would do on normal social media!
Here is a look at the beautiful Ruby Beach during a decent little sunrise along the Olympic coast. Hope you are all having a great start to your weekend out there.
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Chrysis ignita - Length approx 12 mm. This is a brightly coloured wasp with a metallic red abdomen and bright green head and thorax. Cuckoo wasps like these lay their eggs in the nest of other species and their young eat the other eggs or larvae!
www.insectweek.co.uk/discover-insects/bees-ants-wasps/rub...
These Ruby-crowned Kinglets are tough little birds to photograph. They are extremely hyperactive and just when you think you've got one in your sights - they move on. This one isolated on a perch for more than its usual 1/2 nanosecond.
First time to visit the old briar patch this Fall. It's still a magnet for birds. Not a place I'd expect to find kinglets if I hadn't done it in years past. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
Late Summer and thistles. Always something going on in a thistle patch. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
The sun turned ruby, colored the sea with a broad yellowish brush stroke, and set the whole sky in flame.
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
This ruby-throated hummingbird was working on getting nectar from this beautiful lantana plant.
Este colibrà garganta rubà trabajaba en obtener néctar de esta flor de lantana.
Had a pair of Ruby-crowns and Golden-crowned Kinglets in front of us at the same time. For the number of frames I burned, I didn't get much in return. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
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
this is the head shot from my favourite montage i shot so far. there is something amazing about this girl
the above image is from this months (june 2010) trend spotting in Source Magazine. ruby was the interviewed. See this months spread and other photos i have in source on my blog.
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Trying some off-camera flash to see if I can reduce shutter speed and ISO. I haven't got the flash settings down just yet but I was pleased with the flash freezing the subject. With my settings, the image would have been almost black otherwise.
I've never seen this before; a female Ruby-tailed wasp trying to chew through the mud seal in one of the completed nest holes in my garden bee-hotel. She spent a good time there, but didn't manage to break through into the brood chambers.
I'd been chasing this wasp (or a very similar one) all over the bee-hotel for quite a while. Anyone who's tried to photograph these will know just how active, and difficult to photograph they are. This one was so intent on her labours that she just ignored me and I got several dozen photographs.
Sadly, I didn't seen what had produced the host nest. There are Trypoxylon spider-hunting wasps nesting in the bee-hotel though and their nests are known to be parasitised by chrysidid wasps.
Ruby-crowned kinglet, Regulus calendula, in my back yard, Austin. A red crown is only visible when the bird is excited.
A very small, hyper songbird. The sexes and juveniles are identical, except the males have the ruby crest, which is invisible most of the time. They show it only when excited. Winter residents in Oklahoma. These tiny birds raise large broods across Canada and Alaska. Conservation status is Least Concern. Our beautiful world, pass it on..