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My old loan horse ruby red. Ruby is a stunning 16.1hh 23 year old chestnut TBXID mare. I loan her for 6 great months. In 2011 from the 4th of December till the 7th of June 2012. She taught me everything and for that I am extremely grateful.
Ruby needed her nails cutting so I brought her into the sun lounge to do it. She was as good as gold, although she did make a little squeaking noise when I first tipped her up.
Put on by the Vaudevillian, the Two-Bit Variety Spectacle was performed at Home Grown Hamilton and is going to be an on going event the last wednesday of every month.
I rescued Ruby when she was a couple of months old. I intended to have her spayed and get her shots and then adopt her out. I wound up taking her to obedience classes as well. I adopted her out 3 times and people brought her back to me 3 times. She's crazy. She climbs fences and knows how to unsnap a leash. She tears up crates and can open doors. Ruby pretty much does what she pleases. It's been 6 years now. I don't think I'll ever find Ruby a new home.
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As with all hummingbirds, this species belongs to the family Trochilidae and is currently included in the order Apodiformes. This small animal is the only species of hummingbird that regularly nests east of the Mississippi River in North America.
The Ruby-throated hummingbird is the smallest bird species that breeds in the Eastern United States and Eastern Canada.
This hummingbird is from 7 to 9 cm (2.8 to 3.5 in) long and has an 8 to 11 cm (3.1 to 4.3 in) wingspan. Weight can range from 2 to 6 g (0.071 to 0.212 oz), with males averaging 3.4 g (0.12 oz) against the slightly larger female which averages 3.8 g (0.13 oz). Adults are metallic green above and greyish white below, with near-black wings. Their bill, at up to 2 cm (0.79 in), is long, straight, and very slender. As in all hummingbirds, the toes and feet of this species are quite small, with a middle toe of around 0.6 cm (0.24 in) and a tarsus of approximately 0.4 cm (0.16 in).
The Ruby-throated hummingbird can only fox-trot if it wants to move along a branch, though it can scratch its head and neck with its feet.
The species is sexually dimorphic. The adult male has a gorget (throat patch) of iridescent ruby red bordered narrowly with velvety black on the upper margin and a forked black tail with a faint violet sheen. The red iridescence is highly directional and appears dull black from many angles. The female has a notched tail with outer feathers banded in green, black, and white and a white throat that may be plain or lightly marked with dusky streaks or stipples. Males are smaller than females and have slightly shorter bills. Juvenile males resemble adult females, though usually with heavier throat markings. The plumage is molted once a year, beginning in late summer.
The breeding habitat is throughout most of eastern North America and the Canadian prairies, in deciduous and pine forests and forest edges, orchards, and gardens. The female builds a nest in a protected location in a shrub or a tree. Of all hummingbirds in the United States, this species has the largest breeding range.
The ruby-throated hummingbird is migratory, spending most of the winter in southern Mexico and Central America, as far south as extreme western Panama, and the West Indies. During migration, some birds embark on a nonstop 600 mile journey across the Gulf of Mexico from Panama to Florida. The bird breeds throughout the eastern United States, east of the 100th meridian, and in southern Canada, particularly Ontario, in eastern and mixed deciduous forest. In winter, it is seen mostly in Mexico.
Ruby-throated hummingbirds are solitary. Adults of this species are not social, other than during courtship (which lasts a few minutes); the female also cares for her offspring. Both males and females of any age are aggressive toward other hummingbirds. They may defend territories, such as a feeding territory, attacking and chasing other hummingbirds that enter.
As part of their spring migration, portions of the population fly from the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico across the Gulf of Mexico, arriving first in Florida and Louisiana. This feat is impressive, as a 800 km (500 mi), non-stop flight over water would seemingly require a caloric energy that far exceeds an adult hummingbird's body weight of 3 g (0.11 oz). However, researchers discovered the tiny birds can double their fat mass by approximately one gram in preparation for their Gulf crossing, then expend the entire calorie reserve from fat during the 20 hour non-stop crossing when food and water are unavailable.
Hummingbirds have one of the highest metabolic rates of any animal, with heart rates up to 1260 beats per minute, breathing rate of about 250 breaths per minute even at rest, and oxygen consumption of about 4 ml oxygen/g/hour at rest. During flight, hummingbird oxygen consumption per gram of muscle tissue is approximately 10 times higher than that seen for elite human athletes.
Ruby Tuesday (5,500 square feet)
12300 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 208, Patrick Henry Mall, Newport News, VA
Opened in July 1989
Ruby Tiger and spider. I saw this dead moth on the path and picked it up. But it wasn't dead. You can see in the photo what I couldn't see - the leg of the spider that was underneath it, attacking. When I picked it up the spider came too, but soon abandoned its intended meal to head off over the top of my fingers and drop to safety. I'm not sure if the moth survived. It seemed quite happy walking about but couldn't fly. I placed it carefully on a dandelion head and hoped it recovered. Otherwise I deprived the spider for nothing.
Ruby Tiger moth - Phragmatobia fuliginosa, chalk downland, Magdalen Hill Down butterfly reserve, Winchester, Hampshire, UK, 30th April 2014.
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Ruby, our first TICA girl, earned a couple of awards that I'm thrilled about. In the Mid Pacific Region she earned "2019 Best Cornish Rex Alter of the Year" and "2019 Eleventh Best Alter of the Year". I wish she enjoyed showing as much as I enjoyed showing her. After four shows we decided it was best to hang up her show career and just have fun.
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.
This sweet little red merle female was 6 months old in this picture. She went to her new home shortly after this was taken.
66540 “Ruby” catches the low autumn sun at Huntcliff on 8 November 2017 while heading 6F32, Freightliner’s 0934 Boulby – Middlesbrough rock salt working.
Directly above the leading cab of 66540 “The Ring” a Richard Farrington sculpture can be seen, one of many pieces of public art that feature along on the Cleveland Way National Trail.
I had made my first visit to the Boulby branch on 20 October and was so impressed that I returned here three weeks later. I really wanted to try a pole shot with 6F31 at first light, so left home at 04:30 - and despite delays due to thick fog - I was still at Huntcliff for 08:00. Unfortunately so was 66540 - running 20 minutes early - so I had to be content with this shot of it on its way back!
We've been seeing a ton of ruby-throated hummingbird activity lately. Watch for these tiny, active birds zipping around and guarding food sources.
Photo by Courtney Celley/USFWS.