Ruby Throated Hummingbird on the honeysuckle arbor - Green Spring Gardens

Cuffie River Nature Retreat, Tobago

Same bird and same perch as the last Ruby-topaz image I posted, but slightly different angle. It’s hard not to be fascinated by these birds and how the iridescence in their feathers shows when the light source is from the correct angle.

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Ruby Beach is off highway 101 on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. The beach, like many along the west coast, is noted for it's sea stacks -- geological landforms created by erosion. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_(geology)

Ruby Throated Hummingbird docking maneuver with Lilly of the Nile

Ruby Throated Hummingbird on a Porterweed stalk. A brief moment of repose for the little migrant - Green Spring Gardens Park

Mercer Meadows, Lawrenceville, NJ - I have a few other photos of the ruby stripe will put in comments.

Ruby Beach - North American Rainforest, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA

SOOC challenge for 52 in 2015. Only adjustment was to calibrate with camera/lens (a feature of Lightroom, so it's as much as I took it as possible), and a crop.

Ruby, my Red Point Siamese kitten, having a snooze on the air-conditioner.

I love my camera.

Camera in one hand, ball in the other.

I love my fur sister, too.

She doesn't fit in my hand. Or take pictures...

..but 'cute' seems to go a long way in this world, eh?

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Ruby Throated Hummingbird (m)

I drove down to Ruby Beach with @tomhill_photography recently. You’d think that drowning his phone in sea water would slow him down a bit, but no such luck… that f*ckface still managed to get a beautifully processed shot up a day ahead of me. What a dick ;-)… Anyhow, we were standing shoulder to should for this shot and it’s awesome to see how different a few inches makes to a composition.

One thing is certain, we both LOVED Ruby Beach. The light, the mist, the waves… all of it. This was actually a single exposure (rare for me, I know!) but I attribute that to the new Canon 5D MkIV that I picked up a while ago - There is definitely better dynamic range and cleaner iso on this camera. Loving it so far.

I was using my polarizer and a 3 stop ND filter to get my shutter open long enough to get this water motion captured. I was pretty excited when this popped up on the view finder. I might have squealed…

A male Ruby-throated Hummingbird at Westham Island, British Columbia.

Ruby Throated Hummingbird drawing nectar from a salvia flower. Botanical Gardens, Toronto, Ontario.

Oceanside, NY

- September 15, 2017

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

54/124 -In the blink of an eye - 124 Pictures in 2024

male ruby-throated hummingbird

Photograhed in the backyard setup in Memphis, Tennessee.

Member of Nature’s Spirit

Good Stewards of Nature

We rarely see hummingbirds at the water.

This male was drinking from a small fountain whose only purpose is to make water sound to attract wildlife.

Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, June 26, 2025.

Archilochus colubris.

The extremely short legs of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird prevent it from walking or hopping. The best it can do is shuffle along a perch. Nevertheless, it scratches its head and neck by raising its foot up and over its wing.

Ruby throated humminbird

Huntley meadows park, VA, USA

August 2018

Female Ruby Throated Hummingbird in our backyard.

Backyard

I spotted several Ruby-crowned Kinglets and I suspect they were chasing a perspective mate.

Ruby Throated Hummingbird female - feeding on a Nile Lily Green Spring Gardens Park

Ruby-throated Hummingbird on a banana plant flower - Green Spring Gardens Park

These little birds have been teasing me for awhile and I finally got one (without the ruby crown) the other day. But today I was lucky that this one sat long enough so I could get a few photos. Phew!

Ruby Throated Hummingbird female at canna lilies

photographed at our house in the Boise Highlands, Idaho.

The Hale River flowing through Ruby Gap in Central Australia

Cambo Legend 4x5

Nikon 240mm Copal 3

Kodak Ektachrome +1/2 converted to greyscale

Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park

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.

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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Ruby Throated Hummingbird on a Red Yucca

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 Throated Hummingbird - Green Spring Gardens Park

"El poblet de Rúbies aplegava 44 habitants en començar el segle [XX]; a l'any 1950 n'hi quedaven encara una vintena, però d'ençà del 1970 ja havia estat abandonat per la família Baulies, la darrera que hi restava. Totes les cases s'han anat esfondrant llevat de la casa Baulies que encara se serva dreta, no sabem per quant temps." Manuel Cortès i Ribelles El Montsec i muntanyes veïnes, Centre Excursionista de Lleida, 1984.

Ruby-tailed Wasp (Chrysis sp) investigating every nook & cranny of my garden wall.