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ruby-throated hummingbird

in the garden

Kent County, Michigan

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 450mm, f/7.1, 1/250, ISO 800. View Large.

This one was feeding between the raised beds and gave me a clean background. Very nice of it. 😉

Kent County, Michigan

On the dead branch that I put in the garden as a perch.

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet at the Idaho Botanical Gardens, Boise, Idaho

Kane County, Illinois

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/6.3, 1/640, ISO 1100. View Large.

Female hummingbird enjoying some Turk's Cap flowers while spending a few days in my area on its Fall Migration South. Richmond, Texas (Archilochus colubris)

Minocqua, Wisconsin

Regulus calendula - LOVES suet and mealworms - Migratory - I have many that stay the winter but they leave in the spring.

Will you just sit still for a couple seconds.

Dixon Meadows, PA

Sipping the nectar of the gods

ruby throated hummingbird

in the garden

Kent County, Michigan

Ruby Queen but only for a day

Anthem | [Glitzz] | SWANK | [HJ] | CAZIMI | EvoX | LeLUTKA

Eye on Fashion

ruby-throated hummingbird

My yard

Lowell Township, Michigan

From the archives.

Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Thanks for taking a look!

ruby crowned kinglet

Ruby throated hummingbird

Spent a fun day at Bill's Backyard Bird Blind sitting in a comfy chair, 15 feet from a flower bed yesterday. Saw three of these little guys. This one looks like a juvenile male. A fill flash was used.

Somewhere in PA.

ruby-throated hummingbird

Summer in the Garden

Kent County, Michigan

on a zinnia in the garaden

Lowell Township, Michigan

This is the first time I have seen one of these. Unfortunately I couldn't get a photo of the crown.

Ruby-crowned Kinglets right now in this area are plentiful and singing their energetic, upbeat song. It's always great to see them with their crest showing.

Saratoga Spa State Park

Glendale, Missouri

Another 'Chrysis ignita' shot from the other day

Leptospermum scoparium, manuka plant.

Below the imposing escarpment of Dodge’s Bluff, Amtrak train 5, the westbound California Zephyr, traces the Colorado River in spectacular Ruby Canyon just east of Utaline, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 23, 2021.

Ruby Beach-Washington Coast

Are you taking my photo? A Ruby-crowned Kinglet checking me out at Hidden Springs near Boise, Idaho

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

MEASUREMENTS

Both Sexes

Length: 3.5-4.3 in (9-11 cm)

Weight: 0.2-0.3 oz (5-10 g)

Wingspan: 6.3-7.1 in (16-18 cm)

Ruby-crowned Kinglets are olive-green birds with a prominent white eyering and white wingbar. This wingbar contrasts with an adjacent blackish bar in the wing. The “ruby crown” of the male is only occasionally visible.

These are restless, acrobatic birds that move quickly through foliage, typically at lower and middle levels. They flick their wings almost constantly as they go.

The already busy Monterey's Fisherman's Wharf got busier as the passengers from the Ruby Princess disembarked from the tenders.

Still present in the backyard.

Vancouver, B.C.

Great Swamp NWR, NJ

Thank you very much for your kind comments, favorites and looking

Having a breakfast while waiting for the Golden Eagles to make a showing.

Coyote Hills Regional Park

Fremont, CA

Rhanks for your visit, faves and/or comments.

First of the season

Metabolic studies on Ruby-crowned Kinglets suggest that these tiny birds use only about 10 calories (technically, kilocalories) per day.

Hard to believe the way they never sit still.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Another look at that ruby spot!

Female Ruby Throated Hummingbird with explosion background composited in.

male, Richmond, B.C.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet at Barber Park, Boise, Idaho

Vancouver, B.C.