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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.
I spotted this beauty while checking out flowers at small garden centre in Peterborough and luckily had my camera in the trunk. Could have used a tripod or steadier hands though as most of the shots were blurred, good thing I took lots :) Thanks to my dear friend Ri ॐ dragonflyriri ॐ for the ID. Do visit her photostream for the most amazing dragonfly shots!
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.
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
A male Ruby-crowned Kinglet, showing off his crown ...those legs make toothpicks look like trees .-)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Regulus calendula
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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 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.