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It's amazing what you can find in your own yard. This little immature male RT hummer has been buzzing around our yard like crazy with his siblings. I was finally able to catch him (just barely) feeding on our firecracker plant.
Do you see me? Ruby-throated hummingbirds have surprisingly good camouflage.
¿Me ves? Los colibríes garganta rubí tienen camuflaje que es sorprendemente bueno
The ruby-throated hummingbirds really like the purple salvia. I was watching insects on the garden flowers when this one came in.
There have been several sightings of these birds on the grounds at Strawberry Plains Audubon Center. Many more should arrive by the end of the month.
Ruby Rose has a little mark on her forehead. A legacy of living in a toy box, perhaps. Rebecca did a great job smoothing it out and getting rid of lots of scratches. The plastic is a little white around her mark, but its what makes this little kenner girl special to me. Funnily enough its endearing and tells her story. Its her battle scar, her war wound. I love her for it.
Got some great shots of a few Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds at the Overpeck Native Plant Garden
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
🔎 Larus marinus
The BCAS garden in Overpeck Park
Leonia, NJ 8/2024
Nikon D500
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The sun finally came out so I went out and got a couple of shots around the feeders. I found this ruby-crowned kinglet in th mountain ash.
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After yesterdays heavy rain and wind Mill Lake Park was filled with birds. Several Ruby-crowned Kinglets were rapidly checking out the bushes and trees.
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Regulus calendula is one of the tiniest songbirds in North America, only slightly larger than its cousin the golden-crowned kinglet. Ornithologists estimate these 5-10 gram (0.2-0.4 oz) birds burn only 10 calories per day, despite their hyperactivity. They are in constant motion, so finding them with a long lens is extremely challenging, and when they are still for a second, it is usually behind twigs that confound the best autofocus system. Unlike their sligntly smaller cousin, the golden-crowned kinglet, they evacuate New England during the winter, and return to the North Woods to breed. These birds were newly arrived migrants, and NH, in fact, is at the southern limits of their breeding range, so perhaps they were preparing to move even further north. They hawked out over Brickyard Pond, seizing invisible insects before returning to shrubs on the banks of the pond. Breeding males have red crests, but these are often hidden by green feathers. (Keene State College; 21 May, 2018)
View over Rippon Vineyard. April 30, 2016 Central Otago in the South Island of New Zealand.
The land upon which Rippon stands has been in the Mills family since 1913. The primary interest of all who work at Rippon is to grow wines which are an accurate reflection of the property. All Rippon wines are produced from the single vineyard on the shores of Lake Wanaka.
Central Otago: the only continental climate in New Zealand viticulture with high ultra violet light, long sunshine hours and highly refractive soils.
Wanaka: a more temperate climate relative to the rest of Central Otago due to its close proximity to the dividing mountains of the Southern Alps.
Lake Wanaka: the temperance of this large thermal mass, coupled with the protective nature of Ruby Island further softens Rippon’s microclimate.
Schist: the metamorphic mother rock, rich in foliated mica and quartzite is deposited as glacial moraines, coarse-layered gravels, ancient lake-bed clays and wind-blown loess.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
They are anual visitors, can be seeing during august and september while are going southward.
Los Ruby-throated pueden ser observados en Monterrey en los meses de agosto y septiembre, cuando están migrando hacia el sur.
I've got a ruby red desire
Like a virus like my last hope
I've got a ruby red desire
I've got to hear the red bird sing
I've got to rip this cord
And rinse this lazy blood
Clear a path and walk away
I've been waiting for the sky to fall
I've been thinking I could lose it all
I've been waiting for the safety net
Tell myself that I'm not ready yet
And every memory's a dream
And each uncertainty reminds me why
I saw a kid outside playing by a moongate
Making paper things that fly
I've been waiting for the sky to fall
I've been worried I could lose it all
I've been waiting for the safety net
Tell myself that I'm not ready yet
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
- Heather Nova, 'Ruby red'
The Ruby
115 Studs in length
After the defeat of the Wicked Witch of the West, the Good Witch of the North helped Dorothy Gale return home to Kansas. The Land of Oz was left, by the Wizard, in the capable hands of the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion. Although they lead the people of Oz with grace and wisdom, the lands were so large that even they could not keep everything in check. Oz began to fall to ruin...
The Winkies, once slaves to the Wicked Witch’s whims, attempted to rebuild their society, but were hampered by the prejudice they faced from other citizens of Oz. The Munchkins could not relate to them given their history with the Wicked Witch of the East; the citizens of the Emerald City looked down on them as gullible puppets; even the Gillikins of the North, under the guidance of Glinda, held on to their resentment. The Tin Man tried to teach his people compassion, but their hearts could not be changed.
The three leaders decided that Dorothy was needed in Oz once more. Through her leadership, they would work to restore Oz to not only what it once was, but what it could truly be. The Scarecrow devised a way to contact her, and she agreed to return to them. Once back in the Emerald City, she took on the title of General, and began working on a plan to unite the people of Oz. Dorothy first went to the Munchkins, who welcomed her back as the hero she once was. The Munchkin people, she had heard, had moved on from their agricultural roots and had been delving into engineering and technologies. She requested of them a vehicle capable to her task.
The Munchkins constructed the MK-78, which Dorothy nicknamed The Ruby. This craft would allow General Gale and her team to travel across the Land of Oz, finding refugee Winkies and teaching tolerance to the other citizens. Two removable containers (one communication, one a mobile garage) could remain in an area while the ship continued searching for those in need. If difficulty occurs, the ship is equipped with a small fighter dubbed the ”Flying Monkey” to protect both it and those they are trying to help, while the bridge-module also serves as a shuttle. Three Munchkin engineers travel with the ship to keep it operational.
Through her work, Dorothy has been able to bring the Winkies together with the Quadlings, the Rlys and the Hilanders who helped shelter them and guide them on the path to a functional society. Dorothy remains at the helm of The Ruby, bringing the people of Oz together, one brick at a time.