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The Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) are small hummingbirds that breed in southern Canada (central Alberta east to Nova Scotia) south to central and eastern USA (North Dakota east to Maine, and south to southern Texas. Vagrants travel as far west as California. This species occupies the largest breeding range of any North American hummingbird.) are small hummingbirds that breed in southern Canada (central Alberta east to Nova Scotia) south to central and eastern USA (North Dakota east to Maine, and south to southern Texas. Vagrants travel as far west as California. This species occupies the largest breeding range of any North American hummingbird.
Oh yes, I do love string quilts! This one is made up out of the lovely Ruby line by Bonnie and Camille. Blogged here.
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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A female Ruby-throated hummingbird resting on a chinese hat plant at Castellow Hammock Park in Miami, FL.
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.
My hummingbirds are getting ready to fly to South America for the winter. How they find there way is a mystery to me. I need GPS just to get across town!
This photograph was taken during a Portrait Photography workshop with Matt Osborne in London. Thanks for the support yesterday, Matt!
Ruby, thanks for modeling for us on such a glorious day! I had a blast.
Photographed in friend Allen's (asparks306) backyard setup in Cordova, Tennessee.
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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.
(Regulus calendula) -- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
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. Smaller than a warbler or chickadee, this plain green-gray bird has a white eyering and a white bar on the wing. Alas, 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.
Read more at: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet/overview
Hundreds of these little birds were out en masse over the weekend at Strawberry Plains Audubon Center feasting on the Coral Bean plants. Allen (asparks306), FlyFisherMike and I just sat and waited for the correct moment to capture some neat images.
My friend www.flickr.com/photos/eklohoma/ suggested the title of this photo be "Ruby Melted (instead of what I had: Ruby). So I wondered if the Ruby can be melted .. answer is yes, at 2044 °C according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby .. Thus I had no choice but to change the Title! Thanks :)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula),11/28/2021, The Landing’s Sparrow Field, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Ga.
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.
Ruby Throated Hummingbird - got to keep those feathers in good shape for the next dogfight - Green Spring Garden Park