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This young guy from a couple weeks back wanted to make sure I wasn't after his nectar. I think we may be mostly done with hummers for the season-- we had a front come through yesterday, and I think our remaining birds may have left, as I didn't see any yesterday. Time will tell, but this is a typical time for them to leave. We'll await their return in the spring... Glendale, Missouri
(Regulus calendula) -- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
A tiny bird seemingly overflowing with energy, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet forages almost frantically through lower branches of shrubs and trees. Its habit of constantly flicking its wings is a key identification clue. Smaller than a warbler or chickadee, this plain green-gray bird has a white eyering and a white bar on the wing. Alas, the male’s brilliant ruby crown patch usually stays hidden—your best chance to see it is to find an excited male singing in spring or summer.
Read more at: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet/overview
I haven't had a chance to get out with my camera recently so here is an image taken this spring of a Ruby-crowned Kinglet searching for something to eat.
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If you like photographic challenges, hummingbirds are the ticket. I’m not talking at a feeder where they will eat out of your hand, but on a complicated firebush plant. With the male, the goal is to get its gorget, that colorful reddish/orange neck it sports, to light up. That requires it to face the sun. The problem is that when it’s feeding, the gorget only lights up when it’s behind the flower. If it’s perpendicular to the camera, you can see a bit of the color but not the full show. Sometimes it will hold still in the air, the most difficult shot to get, as it’s there and gone by the time you swing the lens to that position. Also, because of the bird’s small size the camera often has a hard time focusing on the bird which necessitates using a small focus area. Having a small focus area on a small bird that stays in place for milliseconds, is a trick. Anyway, “Mike, stop your whining get on with it!” You’re welcome. This guy gave me a good look and I’m partial, as my friend Lu will attest, to dark images, so this one appeals to me. I did have to use some photoshop magic on the lower left to remove an out of focus firebush bloom made a semi-transparent red blob over the bottom of the plant part shown here. (Ruby-throated Hummingbird – Archilochus colubris) (Sony a1M2, 400mm lens with a 1.4 extender providing 560mm, 1/4000 second, f/4, ISO 1600)
The ruby-crowned kinglet (Corthylio calendula) is a very small passerine bird found throughout North America. It is a member of the kinglet family. The bird has olive-green plumage with two white wing bars and a white eye-ring. Males have a red crown patch, which is usually concealed.
BIG BIRD in a small body.
These little guys are smaller than your thumb, but seem to have NO FEAR! Huge birds like Herons and Egrets run for their lives, if they happen to notice you can see them, a half mile away.
Yet when I spot these tiny little birds almost anywhere they couldn't care less if you see them or not. In fact sometimes they become so curious about what you're up too, the will come land on a branch right next to your head so close there's no way your camera can even focus on them. Some times even Hummingbirds will do that, almost willing to land on your nose to get a good look.
While even flocks of thousands of geese or ducks will scramble for their lives if you merely drive by in a truck a quarter mile away. What's up with that?
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A cute ruby crowned kinglet from my yard. These are one of my favorite visitors and they are the kind of bird that seems to benefit from my presence on the deck scaring the other birds (especially house sparrows) away.
A male ruby topaz hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus). Hummers are territorial and this one would perch on this branch to watch over his domain. Anytime another hummer entered, he would fly off to chase it away.
I wanted to get him (or any other hummer) feeding off a flower, but they just move so fast. I had to settle for a perch shot. This location was inside a tree, so I used a ladder to get eye-level and a flash to provide fill light.
The male ruby topaz has wonderful colors but they are not on display all of the time (or even most of the time). You need to catch the male when it flares out its feathers which causes it to transfer from a drab brown little bird into something like what you see here - red top, yellow breast.
Hundreds of kinds of hummingbirds nest in the American tropics, and more than a dozen in the western U.S., but east of the Great Plains there is only the Ruby-throat. There it is fairly common in summer in open woods and gardens. Hovering in front of a flower to sip nectar, it beats its wings more than 50 times per second. Impressive migrants despite their small size, some Ruby-throats may travel from Canada to Costa Rica.
For 121 pictures in 2021 #80 "Ruby red", this is a closeup of an amaryllis that started blooming a couple of days ago.
Ruby red pop-up poppy... have a wonderful Tuesday!!!
This was the real color of this poppy! Some dark kind of red!
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entranced by a swarm of gnats, totally ignored me. no bigger than my thumb but so close i was bumping the focus stop. in a group of three. no crowns on display.