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Marianne Williams Park
Boise, Idaho
The Ruby-crowned Kinglet, one of North America's smallest songbirds, has a loud, complex song and, with up to 12 eggs, lays the largest clutch of any North American passerine for its size. Males and females are nearly identical in plumage -- olive green-gray on the upperparts with two strong white wing-bars and a broken, white eye-ring. The male has a scarlet crown patch, which is usually concealed unless agitated.
During migration and winter, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet occupies a variety of habitats and is often recognized by its constant wing-flicking. As a breeder, it inhabits spruce-fir forests of the northern and mountainous western United States and Canada. Its nest is hidden, often near the trunk and up to 30 meters above the ground, making reproductive data difficult to gather. Much remains to be learned about the breeding biology and behavior of this species.
This is Ruby Beach, along the Washington coastline. This was our anniversary trip, although a little early this year. I've been wanting to go here for a couple years now. Finally got the chance! I would have loved to have stayed 'til sunset, but that would've meant another three hours! What an enjoyable trip though! We actually travelled all the way up to the northern edge of Washington! We went a full circle, encircling the whole Olympic National Park! Very pretty!
Ruby Beach, Washington
052617
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Ruby has a new issue online! #56 includes the work of max gomez canle, aron wiesenfeld, mayumi Otero, yevgen samborsky, julia kristina selin, sandy smith and kitty clark.
(image by Sandy Smith)
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Ruby tiene un nuevo número online! la edición#56 incluye el trabajo de max gomez canle, aron wiesenfeld, mayumi otero, yevgen samborsky, julia kristina selin, sandy smith y kitty clark.
(imagen por Sandy Smith)
A tiny bird that overflows with energy, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) seems to forage almost frantically through lower branches of shrubs and trees. Its habit of constantly flicking its wings is a key identification clue. Outside of hummingbirds, Kinglets are the smallest of Northern American birds. This plain green-gray bird has a white eyering and a white bar on the wing. The male’s brilliant ruby crown patch usually stays hidden. Your best chance to see it is to find an excited male singing in spring or summer. The Ruby-crowned Kinglet 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. Metabolic studies on Ruby-crowned Kinglets suggest that these tiny birds use only about 10 calories per day.
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Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are the only hummingbird that migrates and mates in Connecticut. It measures about 3" from the tip of the bill to the tail. They are lightening fast. Females have the white throat and males have the red throat.
Ruby is my Bisou Ai UU from Custom House. She's a small girl full of energy! She loves to play around with her Sis Cindy. They're best friends!! Ruby is wearing La Boutique de Lupi,Simply Kir hat and ixtee boots.
Ruby-crowned kinglet, Rondeau Provincial Park, Oct 21, 2018.
Lot of people looking for the great kiskadee in the park today. Many were successful in finding it, but there were lots of other birds around.
This ruby-crowned kinglet was flitting through a grape vine looking for something to eat.
Of course he wasn't showing much of the ruby crown.
Regulus calendula
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.
A sunburst behind a sea stack looking towards Abbey Island on Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park, USA via 500px ift.tt/2i9sSan
image by clara diaz
April 15th, 2011
Good news! Ruby Mag + german publishers Gestalten made a new book that will be launching next month! it has 240 pages and a selection of 65 artists that have participated in Ruby Mag throughout this past 5 years. Take a look at the upcoming book at gestalten's website: shop.gestalten.com/books/spring-2011/ruby.html
Also, check out the latest issue! RUby #53 includes clara diaz, ludovica gioscia, vanessa maltese, victoria rossi, aaron moran, josephin ritschel, megan diddie and roland lusk.
I put out a hanging flower pot in the back deck and today I quickly snapped these guys (one in the bottom could be a young male or female). Tomorrow I will try to take my time and ensure my exposure etc are set right, so I can avoid the grain (below) and darkness (above) ..
Thanks to my friend Janet (aka Dark Spinner) for her continous encouragements in my photography in general (also for those helpful hummingbird tips). I told you I'll have some hummingbird for you later.
With the sun struggling to break through, blue hour starts early on Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park
Name: Ruby Ramirez
Sex: Female
Pronouns: She/her
Age: 24
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Nationality: Spain
Hair color: Red
Eye Color: Brown (Green Color Contacts)
Height: 5'4
weight: 135 pounds
Sexuality: Lesbian
Taken at Sunny's studio. (Pose: Look Away )
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One immature male ruby throat and one female ruby throat hummingbird are the last two hanging out by the the flowers and feeders. This young male is showing his red feathers and by next Spring when he returns it will be all filled in. He is already aggressive in chasing off others including Cardinals and finches and bees. I shall miss them being around when he leaves in the next few days but will look forward to feeding the migrate birds from Canada and the northern states.
Ruby Beach is the northernmost of the southern beaches in the coastal section of Olympic National Park in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located on Highway 101, in Jefferson County, 27 miles (43 km) south of the town of Forks.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Male)
On his way up to Canada and the Arctic for the summer. He is making a stop in Wisconsin to fill up on bugs. One of the tiny birds.
Wehr Nature Center, Franklin, Wisconsin
April 2018
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ontario, Canada
ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/2500s f/6.3 at 400.0mm iso2000
I couldn't resist posting another photo of this little bird. It was such a challenge to get the shot!
Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade
Activists for birds and wildlife
Explored - thanks *Val* for letting me know!
I'm delighted that Dorset Wildlife Trust are using my portrait of Ruby the Robin to lead their 2017 membership campaign: www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/
and the 'Thank you!' poster here: pbs.twimg.com/media/C1XLcuFXgAEa85s.jpg:large
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds have many skeletal and flight muscle adaptations which allow the bird great agility in flight. Muscles make up 25-30% of their body weight, and they have long, bladelike wings that, unlike the wings of other birds, connect to the body only from the shoulder joint. This adaptation allows the wing to rotate almost 180°, enabling the bird to fly not only forward but also straight up and down, sideways, and backwards, and to hover in front of flowers as it feeds on nectar and insects.
During hovering, ruby-throated hummingbird wings beat 55x/sec, 61x/sec when moving backwards, and at least 75x/sec when moving forward.
Explore #449
The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is by far the most common species that breeds in the eastern half of North America, although most states have sporadic Rufous sightings, and Bob and Martha Sargent have banded eight other hummingbird species as winter visitors to five southeastern states. Ruby-throats are intensely inquisitive and thus easily attracted to feeders, where males in particular typically display aggressive territoriality toward rival hummers, other birds, and even insects such as bees, butterflies, and sphinx moths. They quickly become accustomed to human presence, and will swoop down to investigate red articles of clothing, possibly as potential food sources. Feeders hung at windows attract as many visitors as ones farther from structures, and the bird that claims a feeder as its territory may spend much of the day perched nearby, guarding the food source against intruders. Many hummingbird watchers find "Hummer Warz" endlessly entertaining, although the chases are obviously serious business to the hungry birds. For a short period immediately after fledging, a female will tolerate the presence of her own young at the feeder, but they are soon treated the same as other adult birds - as rivals in pursuit of the food necessary to prepare for the fall migration.