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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 Falls is the deepest publicly accessible underground waterfalls in the United States. This 145 foot waterfall is 1160 feet underground. Miners digging an access route to the now less popular Lookout Mountain caves accidentally stumbled upon this magnificent underground waterfall when they chanced upon a small opening into the falls and followed it.
The ruby whiteface (Leucorrhinia rubicunda, Nordische Moosjungfer) is an endangered dragonfly in Germany according to the Red List. All the more I'm always excited to still find plenty of them at the wonderful Bauernmoor in Tiste.
A female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird taking a break while drinking nectar from some flowers. It required considerable patience on my part under the hot summer sun to get a few good images of these hummers. Comments welcome.
With the weather of nothing but clear skies, a rode trip from Mt. Rainer to Oregon was looking like the best option to photography some waterfalls. While waiting for the sun to rise the next day, a search of the local weather revealed heavy wave action in the Olympic Coast line. After getting some shots of a waterfall, it was back in the SUV and head back North. Ruby Beach was the best location to go. While arriving early, some zzzz's was in order of my guide guru, Ryan Dyer while I explored the coast. As the sun started to set, there was no other way to get to this location, but to walk through knee high water. We set up for this evening shot. As my luck would have it, the wave action was starting to recede. We started shooting for the waves. What we didn't realize is there was a storm quickly coming for us. As it started to rain, I pulled my travel umbrella out. The next thing was the rain changed to hail. With a 15 minute walk back to shelter, there was no option, but wait it out. So there we were a couple of dudes, huddled under a umbrella watching the sunset. I'm sure for who ever was watching, it had to be hysterical. Luckily the rain left as quick as it arrived. After being soak already, the return walk through the water didn't seem as a big issue this time. After some clothes drying, the event started to become funny ourselves.
This photo was composed of 2 images. 1 for the water and the other for the sky. I didn’t realize it at the time of the capture of the warm and cool tones of the sky until I uploaded them. What I did notice though was the hour cloning to eliminate the water spots.
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the sun was kind enough to come out on the granite headwall above Ruby Lake as I was shooting these images for the pano.
Ruby Throated Hummingbird feeding on a Mina Lobata Vine (Firecracker Vine). Green Spring Gardens Park
A ruby-throated hummingbird hovers mid-air, delicately poised above vibrant pink flowers, with blurred greenery and a warm backdrop highlighting its graceful movements. Its iridescent green feathers shimmer in the light, capturing a moment of natural beauty!!!
The less-visited end, that is.
Nice and quiet down here, just make sure you get back around that headland before the tide comes back in.
(last look at the beach, we moved to the mountains the next day)
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Summer 2015: "Up was Down"
July 4th: Forks does the fourth, Ruby Beach.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird ~ (Archilochus colubris)
The migrating Ruby-throated Hummingbirds were enjoying the wild lantana plants at Fort DeSoto.
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There are two species of Kinglet in North America; Ruby-crowned Kinglet, which is plain-faced so looks a bit like our Goldcrest, and Golden-crowned, which has a stripy face so looks rather like our Firecrest. In Britain Firecrest is much the rarer of the two but my experience in America is that Golden-crowned (the Firecrest lookalike) is much the commonest. It has taken me years to get just a couple of photos of Ruby-crowned Kinglet and I still haven't managed a shot showing the male's ruby crown patch. This one was in a small group of half a dozen Ruby-crowned Kinglets at Reifel bird reserve. No crown patch is visible, though only adult males have that, but you can see the wing bars and bold white eye-ring on its plain face, so looking like a Goldcrest.
The Crests and Kinglets used to be all in the same genus Regulus, meaning little king from their crowns, which was part of the Old World Warbler family. But recently they have been placed in their own separate family Regulidae, and Ruby-crowned Kinglet has been placed in a different genus by itself; Corthylio. This name came from a wren-like bird "korthúlos" mentioned by Heyschius of Alexandria. Its specific name "calendula" means glowing, from the fiery colour of the head. It was originally used in 1760 by Brisson to describe the Goldcrest but Linnaeus appropriated it in 1766 for the American Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
One of my favorite flowers. "Ruby Wedding" is cultivar of Great Masterwort. It's Lovely and Gorgeous, you think so too?
A tiny bird seemingly overflowing with energy, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet forages almost frantically through lower branches of shrubs and trees. Its habit of constantly flicking its wings is a key identification clue.
Photographed in friend Allen's (asparks306) backyard setup in Cordova, Tennessee.
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