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Ruby Crowned Kinglet and an older image of mine I found on one of my hard drives :-)
Canon 7D MKII and Canon 500 F4 with 1.4 XTC at ISO 1000 1/640 sec at F6.3
Photograhed in the backyard setup in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Seen for sale in a local rock shop. Rubies are the dark red crystals in the softer green matrix of fuchsite, a chromium (Cr)-rich variety of the mineral muscovite, belonging to the mica group of phyllosilicate minerals. Chromium gives the ruby its deep red color. This sphere is about 8 inches in diameter.
I visited Ruby Beach several times before, but a few weeks ago I was finally rewarded by this kind of beautiful sky, for the first time.
The Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), is a small hummingbird. It is the only species of hummingbird that regularly nests east of the Mississippi River in North America.
Photographed in a private garden in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Photographed in a private garden in Memphis, Tennessee.
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In our story Ruby is a sister of Morion and Opal, but she was born without any magic. As she could not stand living with her more talented sisters (especially with elder Morion), she left their house in dark, deep wood and started new life in the capitol. There - looking for a good job - she found an Assasins Guild. At the moment she is a boss one of a Guild assasins group and meets her sisters only if Guild does need a special powers.
We added a few details in Ruby's company face-up to make it more evening like. Now she is standing here in her new edwardian dress, and looks just awasome... But the pictures will have to wait till Sunday, when we will have a time to do it and when we will have the last dress of a new collection ready :3
Ruby is Dollmore Bella Auden sleepy eyes on Impldoll Star body ns
Face-up by Dollmore and we
Wig by Leeke World
Eyes by Mako Eyes
Ruby Crowned Kinglet at Bombay Hook NWR
The woods were filled with hyperactive little birds
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The Hale River flowing through Ruby Gap in Central Australia
Cambo Legend 4x5
Nikon 240mm Copal 3
Kodak Ektachrome +1/2 converted to greyscale
After the heavy rains yesterday, there might have been a fallout of migrating Ruby-crowned Kinglets at Fishtrap Creek Park this morning. I came across at least a dozen this morning, they have definitely been present in other areas recently but not in these numbers. They seemed to be singing up a storm every time I stopped to listen.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula) / Birds of the Tidal Meadow
Secret-sized and quick as a wink, he flits through fir and maple, ember of life smoldering in green and gold. Olive backed, washed with softest dawn; pale ring about the eye like moon shadow. Within his crown a ruby hidden, flaring only when the heart insists - when desire, or fury, lifts him. Watch him at meadow's edge, where wind-tossed willow meets spruce; a frantic, bright-souled atom, gleaning the ether for tiny economies: aphid, moth, web-spun bite of spider. The kinglet hovers, hangs, and darts, wings a whisper, then vanishes, leaving the world a little more noticed. Listen: his song is a bright micro machinery, strings of notes like beads from some interior rosary, sooner felt than pondered, insistently curious. O tiny citizen of the branch! you teach us how to be vigilant and sing, despite our size - you teach us how to keep a burning crown unseen, until needed.
Photographed in the backyard setup in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Good bye Ruby Tuesday...
Monday Music Mania... HMMM!
Our Daily Challenge topic:
RUBY
I believe this to be a Moser demitasse cup with some hand enameling. The little seeds spilling out are petite rubies...
Photographed in a private garden in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Archilochus colubris
Colibrí garganta de rubí
La Argentina, Grecia
Historia Natural
Alimentación
Visitan flores de una gran variedad de hierbas, arbustos, bejucos y árboles, sobre todo aquellos que producen gran cantidad de flores pequeñas y frecuentemente polinizadas por insectos, o flores aisladas (por ejemplo, flores de siete negritos (Lantana camara), Stachytarpheta, o a veces de guabas (Inga spp.)
En raras ocasiones poseen territorios de alimentación, pero pueden cazar en los territorios de especies más grandes.
Comportamiento
Generalmente se encuentra subordinada a la mayoría de las especies de colibríes locales.
Ciclo anual
Es una especie migratoria neártica.
Habitat y Distribución
Habitat
Viven en bosques secundarios, charrales, bordes de bosques deciduos, y en ocasiones en bosques de galería, plantaciones de café y zonas verdes en áreas rurales.
Distribución
Es una especie residente invernal de poco común a localmente común en las bajuras del Pacífico norte. Es de rara a ocasional a través del Valle Central y en las bajuras del Pacífico sur, y regular, aunque muy poco común, en la región de Los Chiles-Río Frío; en el resto del lado del Caribe solo ocurre como una divagante muy rara, sobre todo durante la migración otoñal de mediados de octubre a noviembre. En primavera emigra entre finales de marzo y mediados de abril.
Distribución fuera de Costa Rica
Se reproduce al este de Norteamérica, desde el sur de Canadá hasta Florida y Texas. Invierna desde el noroeste de México y el sur de Texas regularmente hasta Costa Rica y casualmente hasta el oeste de Panamá.
Distribución de Area de conservación
ArenalGuanacasteOsaPacifico CentralTempisqueAmistad CaribeAmistad PacificoHuetar NorteCordillera Volcanica CentralTortuguero
Descripción
Descripción científica
Mide 8 cm.; el macho pesa 2.7 grm. y la hembra 3 grs. Es más blanco por debajo que los otros colibríes pequeños en su ámbito de distribución; muestra las primarias internas angostas, las puntas entre romas (hembras) y con ángulos muy agudos (machos).
El macho adulto es verde bronceado por encima, incluso en las timoneras centrales, y la cola está profundamente ahorquillada, con las timoneras laterales negras y puntiagudas. La mancha postocular es blanca y la gorguera es rojo rubí. El collar es blanco a través de la parte de adelante del cuello, y el resto de la región inferior es blanco grisáceo, con manchas verdes en los lados.
En el macho las mejillas y auriculares son fuscos, y toda la región inferior es blanco grisáceo, con manchas verdes a los lados. La cola es redondeada, con las puntas de las timoneras laterales romas y la base entre verde y grisáceo,la faja subterminal negra y puntas amplias y blancas. El pico y las patas son negras.
Los individuos juveniles son semejantes a la hembra adulta, pero con los bordes anteados en las plumas de la región superior, sobre todo en la rabadilla y en la nuca, y las bases de las timoneras laterales más fuscas y las puntas más redondeadas (especialmente en las hembras). Los machos generalmente presentan algunas plumas rojas en la garganta y menos blanco en la cola.
Información taxonómica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Aves
Orden: Apodiformes
Familia: Trochilidae
Género: Archilochus
Shot with Nikon D810. This is a shot of Ruby Falls in Washington State, USA. A cascading waterfall flows over rugged rocks, surrounded by lush, green forest. Soft, misty water contrasts with the vibrant moss and foliage clinging to the rocky cliffs.
The hummingbird wars are heating up. First we have my dominant male, and in the second flight shot, that should follow this one in my photostream, we have a juvenile male ruby-throated contender that gives the dominant male the most attitude. The others try to sneak to the feeders when these two are fighting. Since we are finally getting some rain, I had to slow the shutter speed to get decent exposure so that is the reason for the blurred wings, but the eyes are sharp. The brown background in the pics is my dormant grass from lack of water.
Las guerras de colibríes se están calentando. Primero tenemos a mi macho dominante, y en la segunda toma de vuelo, que debería seguir a esta en mi secuencia de fotos, tenemos un contendiente macho juvenil de garganta rubí que le da al macho dominante la mayor actitud. Los otros intentan escabullirse a los comederos cuando estos dos están peleando. Como finalmente llueve, tuve que reducir la velocidad del obturador para obtener una exposición decente, por lo que ésa es la razón de las alas borrosas, pero los ojos son nítidos. El fondo pardo en las fotos es mi hierba inactiva por falta de agua.
Well, no "field-craft" required for this shot. I found this ruby-tailed wasp moribund on the windowsill in our garden room. There's quite a few active in the garden at the moment. I put it on a cosmos flower in the garden. because that's where lots of hymenoptera head for nectar.
When I went back, it had perked-up a bit, so I picked the flower to take it somewhere better to photograph. The wasp fell off though and landed on some cosmos petals on the ground. I picked it back up and rested the petal on the flower. The wasp kindly turned around and adopted this pose. I got a couple of shots before it flew off. I trust that it survived OK!
They are so extraordinarily beautiful - I find them so much easier to forgive than the nomada.
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Distribution and Migration
Ruby-throats breed throughout eastern to midwestern North America, from southern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Most winter in Mexico, Central America, and on Caribbean islands, although a few remain in the Gulf states and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Most researchers accept a remarkable non-stop crossing of the Gulf, taking 18-20 hours. They arrive at the coast in late February or early March, and follow the development of spring flowers northward. Males migrate earlier than females, in both directions; some adult males start south as early as July. The female breeding birds leave in September, with the young of the year following; the last juveniles depart abruptly at first frost (mid-October). By mid-November the fall migration is essentially completed throughout North America.
A fanciful and amusing myth has arisen regarding hummers hitching rides on other birds.
The male Ruby-throated Hummingbird is shiny metallic green above, greyish white below, and has a forked tail. He wears a splendid gorget, or throat patch, of silky, ruby red feathers, which sometimes appear orange, or even jet black, depending on the light. The female is similar but has a greyish-white throat patch. Her tail is rounded, and some of the outer tail feathers are marked with white spots. These she often displays when posturing and in flight. The Ruby-throated Hummingbird’s bill is long, straight, and almost as slender as a darning needle.