A male Ruby-throated Hummingbird hovers in flight, its brilliant red throat and iridescent green plumage standing out against a softly blurred green-and-gold background.

It's my parents Ruby Wedding Anniversary next weekend. Here is the card I have made for them. They're still going strong after 40 years, something worth aspiring to I think ;-)

I know the idea is not new but I really like the effect and hope they will too.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

St. Louis County, MN

2026

This was my second visit to this beach this week during my workshop with Kurt Budliger. Everything seemed less “forced” tonight. The gloomy weather seemed to have scared away a lot of the photographers that were plaguing this beach a few nights earlier.

This workshop had some of the greatest people I have met in my photography travels to date. Great bunch, great humour, GREAT photographers and lots of laughs. I also learn so much of the “intangible” on these workshops. It is mind blowing to see a great instructor create art before your eyes, and show you just how close you are… (yet so far!) It really is the little adjustments that seem to make the biggest difference… And I was starting to grasp this concept better on this night.

The end result is a blend of three images. One for the sky, one for mostly everything else and the final image was consisted mostly of the centre rock next to the sun which had a wonderful glow wrapping around it.

Photographed in the Lantana gardens in Memphis, Tennessee.

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I have had a cute little Ruby Crowned Kinglet visiting one of my suet feeders all winter. I have taken many photos of him hoping he would flash his crown of red feathers but have only managed one shot where he did so. I haven't seen him this week and wonder if he has started migrating back to wherever he came from. Hopefully he will be back next year and will be a little less shy in showing his red crown.

Unusual to see an adult male ruby-throat in Winnipeg this late in August, They are usually long gone and back in Costa Rica foot-loose and fancy-free flirting with the female ruby throats.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Murray Kentucky

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Wikipedia: The ruby-crowned kinglet (Corthylio calendula) is a very small passerine bird found throughout North America. Their breeding habitat is coniferous forests across Canada, Alaska, northern New England and the western United States.

These birds migrate to the southern United States and Mexico. Some birds are permanent residents in the west.

Conservation status: Least Concern

Ruby Throated Hummingbird on Clematis - Green Spring Gardens

juvenile male

First year male Ruby-throated Hummingbird on a Coral Bean Plant

Ruby crowned kinglet Maryland

Ruby Throated Hummingbird - Green Spring Gardens

Ruby Throated Hummingbird on a Salvia plant

Ruby Throated Hummingbird in very challenging light on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia

We travelled nearly 400 miles through the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains - unfortunately most of the drive was through cloud and fog

This photograph is very impressive considering that it was taken in heavily overcast backlit conditions, handholding a telephoto lens at 1/200 trying to capture a very active subject

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Photographed in a private garden in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Ruby Throated Hummingbird feeding on a Cardinal Flower - Green Spring Gardens

Ruby Throated Hummingbird looking for food sources. Photo taken at Morgan Arboretum, Montreal.

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Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula) - Glenhurst Meadows, Warren Green Acres, Warren, New Jersey

I also saw a couple of Golden-crowns, but you know how it is with kinglets (i.e. how seeing them and getting a pic are 2 different things)!

And yet another example of how birds often match the colors of their surroundings.

Note:

840 mm on the 7D format (APS-C) sensor is equivalent to 1400 mm on a full frame body, so a good tripod, a relatively small aperture with a reasonable shutter speed and ISO are essential to getting pics where you can see their feather barbules, beak whiskers, and the glint in their eye. Those of you who have even longer fixed lens cameras will need to be even more careful with your settings, so be sure to use a tripod (or lean your camera against something sturdy) when cranking up the zoom.

Click on the following link to see an alternate stabilization method when other types of bracing aren't available. Or here for an even lower POV stabilization technique.

Here is Pearl reflected in Ruby.

Ruby is a gorgeous Red Camper van all decked out with sweet retro accessories.

The reflection is a cream sweetie, called Pearl - I was very excited to see that www.snailtrail.co.uk have a van named the same as one of my little poppets...

Thanks for Front page Explore kind people ;)

Just a reminder, spring is only 54 days away!

See the video - youtu.be/aoarZwA3_VM

I waited 13 weeks for her, she was worth it. What a sweetie.

Ruby-throated hummingbird, resting on a branch, in my backyard. Note the orange neck feathers.

This is a male Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding on one of his favorite flowers on my patio - a variety of Lantana called "Red Spread." They seem to prefer any of the varieties that have red flowers, but feed from the yellow blossoms in the center. The wings are a bit blurred - I think he must have moved. I took this at 1/800th of a second, so that gives you some idea how fast the wings move.

Taken in New Jersey, USA

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Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Parkland County, Alberta

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

Ruby-throated Hummingbird / Turk's Cap Flower

My wife and I took our annual Memorial Day weekend trip to the Olympics. Olympic National Park is one of my favorite spots on the planet, and I jump at any chance to revisit the area. I hope to get into the high country this summer.

The trip was also special since it marked the first time we took our six month old son Landon camping. He did awesome! It appears he takes after his dad and sleeps like a baby (literally) in the outdoors! I'm looking forward to scores of nights in a tent with him somewhere deep in the woods.

Oh yeah... this shot shows sundown at Ruby beach. As always, I was hoping for a dramatic sky display, but you get what you get. I warmed up the white balance I bit to bring out more of the yellow/ reds.

male ruby. they can fly at about 30 mph, they weigh less than a nickel (topping out at 3 grams while nickel weighs 5 grams) and their wings beat 60-80 times per second. a little marvel of nature.

Female Ruby Throated Hummingbird feeding on a Cardinal Flower - Green Spring Gardens Park

Long Island, NY

Ruby sleeping!

In HDR. I felt like going overboard today, so what do you know? I like HDR, it's not my fave but it's OK. Some people think there's something wrong with HDR but I am indifferent really. I like the way it produces nice reflections in windows and nice shadows.

Possibly Chrysis bicolor investigating nests of the solitary bee Anthophora bimaculata

Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding on a cuphea - Green Spring Gardens Park

this ruby-crowned kinglet brought it's unique song to the woodlands near the ponds

Saw both Golden and Ruby Crowned Kinglets this past weekend. Both are lifers for me.