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For Smile on Saturday - What's in a name....

 

This is my Mum, always known as Ruby though it was in fact her middle name. The name Ruby simply means the gemstone ruby, and also pictured is her mother's engagement ring which is set with three rubies. My middle name is also Ruby... I hated the name when I was a child, it felt very old fashioned, but now it’s cool again and I love it. And it’s nice to have that connection with my Mum.

 

This is especially poignant as today is the second anniversary of her funeral. Her birth month is August too, she was was nearly 92 when she died, an amazing achievement when you know that she was such a tiny baby she wasn’t expected to survive.

 

HSoS 😊

Ruby-throated hummingbird

 

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Ruby-throated hummingbird on Rose of Sharon

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From early fall, posting because I just saw one in the yard yesterday but missed a photo. They are an unusual winter visitor here. Glendale, Missouri.

Stroud Preserve, Chester County

Looks like he had close call with his tail feathers.Nick named Cutey-pie.

Barrett's Meadow, Delaware County

ᴿᵘᵇʸ'ˢ ʰᵉᵃʳᵗ ᵃⁱⁿ'ᵗ ᵇᵉᵃᵗⁱⁿ'

'ᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ˢʰᵉ ᵏⁿᵒʷˢ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵉᵉˡⁱⁿ' ⁱˢ ᵍᵒⁿᵉ

ˢʰᵉ'ˢ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᵒⁿˡʸ ᵒⁿᵉ ʷʰᵒ ᵏⁿᵉʷ ᵗʰᵃᵗ

ᵀʰᵉʳᵉ'ˢ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵗʰⁱⁿ' ʷʳᵒⁿᵍ

ᴴᵉʳ ˡᵒᵛᵉʳ'ˢ ⁱⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᵈⁱˢᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ

ᴬˢ ˢʰᵉ ʷⁱᵖᵉˢ ᵃ ᵗᵉᵃʳ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ʰᵉʳ ᵉʸᵉ

ᴿᵘᵇʸ'ˢ ᶠᵃᵈⁱⁿ' ᵒᵘᵗ, ˢʰᵉ ᵈⁱˢᵃᵖᵖᵉᵃʳˢ

ᴵᵗ'ˢ ᵗⁱᵐᵉ, ᵗⁱᵐᵉ ᵗᵒ ˢᵃʸ ᵍᵒᵒᵈᵇʸᵉ

 

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A Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) perched in a shrub on an acreage east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

 

15 August, 2025.

 

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The ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) is a species of hummingbird that generally spends the winter in Central America, Mexico, and Florida, and migrates to Canada and other parts of Eastern North America for the summer to breed.

Length: 3 – 3.5 in.

Mass: 0.11 oz (Adult)

Life expectancy: 3 - 5 years

 

Ref: en.wikipedia.org

Tiê-preto (Tachyphonus coronatus).

Trilha dos Tucanos, Tapiraí, São Paulo, Brazil.

Animal in wildlife.

Olympic National Park. Washington

Ruby-throated hummingbird.

I saw her mate the other day, just after I set the camera down for a second. 😮

Ruby the Labradoodle! Eight weeks old and very cute.

A female ruby-throated hummingbird feeds on our backyard bee balm

Many thanks to all those who View, Comment and or Favorite My Photos. It is greatly appreciated. Scott :)

heading to the jewel weed

I've been looking for a hummingbird nest for many years with no success. A big thank you to Dan Keener for pointing this nest out to me.

 

Wikipedia: The ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) is a species of hummingbird that generally spends the winter in Central America, Mexico, and Florida, and migrates to Canada and other parts of Eastern North America for the summer to breed. It is the most common hummingbird in eastern North America, having population estimates of about 35 million in 2021.

 

Conservation status: Least Concern

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby-throated_hummingbird

One of the ruby-tailed wasps, probably Chrysis Ignita. Taken in Wingate Quarry nature reserve.

Ruby throated hummingbird, Rondeau Provincial Park, June 29, 2023.

We have had a dozen, or more, hummers in the yard harassing each other.

This one was gauging two feeders so he was busy.

Archilochus colubris.

Make sugar water mixtures with about one-quarter cup of sugar per cup of water. Food coloring is unnecessary; table sugar is the best choice. Change the water before it grows cloudy or discolored and remember that during hot weather, sugar water ferments rapidly to produce toxic alcohol.

source -Cornell Lab of Ornithology

 

Oval Verneuil Ruby Hand-cut by Jura lapidary in the 1970s

Format 12 by 10 mm. Displayed on a background of Natural Ruby in Zoisite from Africa

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A61Yal78EQU

 

ABOUT SYNTHETIC RUBY:-

Synthetic gemstones are physically identical to their natural gemstone counterparts that are mined from the Earth. They have the same physical properties and chemical composition as naturally occurring gemstones. Ruby is aluminum oxide colored red by chromium. Synthetic ruby is often made by simply melting aluminum oxide that contains a trace of chromium. The resulting crystal has the same internal atomic structure as natural ruby as well as the same optical properties, hardness, and chemical composition.

 

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Ruby-throated Hummingbird

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Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Juv.?). A first one for me.

Here’s the back side of a Ruby-throated Hummingbird. It’s a female checking out some blooms of what I’d done my best to identify, Fire Spike Red (Odontonema strictum) If I have the plant wrong, please let me know. I’m looking forward to spending some more time shooting them and hopefully getting a male with its ruby throat on fire. (Archilochus colubris) (Sony a1, 400mm f/2.8 @ 2.8, 1/5000 second, ISO 4000)

Ruby-throated hummingbird

 

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I remember how excited I was the first time I saw the Ruby-crowned Kinglet in my bird bath earlier this year. It was so skittish and took me a long time before I got a photo. This little one has become so comfortable with the amenities in my yard, he/she has been willing to pose for some photos today. I am so happy to welcome a new regular to my yard. BUT, the other regular Cooper's Hawk came for a visit today, too. I don't think it got anything, but you know...

The female Ruby-throated Hummingbird taking a rest at the Heather Garden of Fort Tryon Park in New York City.

 

The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is a small hummingbird with a slender, slightly down curved bill and fairly short wings that don't reach all the way to the tail when the bird is sitting.

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are bright emerald or golden-green on the back and brown, with gray-white underparts. Males have a brilliant iridescent red throat that looks dark when it's not in good light.

--- allaboutbirds.org

 

Smile on Saturday theme Frutaria

 

These are the attractive ruby berries of the Guelder Rose growing wild in the meadows. Although they are mildly toxic to us folk the birds just love them.

 

Happy Smile on Saturday!

  

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