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Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park
Washington
This sunset was taken at Ruby Beach, part of a set of beaches that are within Olympic National Park. The rock outcroppings and sea stacks are unique to each area of the coast. By choosing different tides and times of years, opportunities for composition at these ocean sites are unlimited!
In the Central Oklahoma Cross Timbers, a ruby-crowned kinglet flitted among leafless oaks and redbuds, his olive-gray feathers blending with the winter drab. March’s first warmth stirred the air, signaling time to prepare for the northward trek.
All winter, he’d foraged tirelessly—tiny wings flitting incessantly as he gleaned spiders and dormant insects from bark, his slight frame belying fierce tenacity. The ruby crown, usually hidden, flared briefly when a chickadee darted too close, a flying jewel against the brown landscape.
He’d weathered ice storms, huddling in cedar boughs, and now his restless flight quickened. With a high, thin see-see-see, he tested the breeze, instincts pulling him toward Canada’s spruce forests. One dawn, as redbuds hinted at bloom, he gorged on leftover berries, fueling up for the 1,500-mile journey.
At dusk, he launched skyward, a speck against the fading light, navigating across the starlit Great Plains. Ahead lay breeding grounds, mates, and summer songs—a promise worth the perilous journey. Oklahoma faded below, and his winter refuge was now just a memory.
Morning fog hovers over Lake Irwin as the peaks of the Ruby Range reflect in its waters during a glorious sunrise. I captured this near Crested Butte, Colorado a couple of weeks ago.
Ruby is the executive director's dog at Wright-Locke Farm. She can be shy around people, so I zoomed in from afar for this photo (while shaking a treat bag).
Another view of Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA. I tried to choose the point of view so that the sun, which only sometimes broke through the fog, is reflected exactly in the puddle in front.
Ruby Beach has beautiful rocks and an enormous amount of driftwood. The sand on the beach contains ruby-like crystals, hence the name.
A ruby‑crowned kinglet may be tiny, but its winter physiology is remarkably engineered for the severe cold that settles over its winter habitat in the Oklahoma Cross Timbers. When Arctic air pushes through the post oaks and blackjacks, the kinglet increases its metabolic rate to one of the highest recorded in any songbird, burning calories at a rapid pace to maintain core temperature. Its contour feathers loft into a dense insulating layer, reducing heat loss.
Throughout the day, it forages almost nonstop, gleaning dormant insects, eggs, and spiders from bark crevices and cedar foliage—micro‑prey that provide the high‑energy intake needed to offset nighttime losses. At dusk, it seeks dense cover in thickets or cedar trees, where the wind chill effect is less.
A master of microhabitats and metabolic precision, thriving in winter’s harshest conditions.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) has been reclassified to Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula)
The hummingbird activity has finally started to accelerate as they prepare to head south for migration. This is just one of several adult males in my backyard.
La actividad de los colibrÃs se ha accelerado finalmente mientras que se preparan para dirigirse al sur para su migración. Éste es sólo uno de los machos que se encuentran en mi patio trasero ahora.
Checking out nooks and crannies in a fence post! They move so fast, and rarely pause for long!
Lyth Hill - Shropshire
Ruby-throated hummingbirds, Rondeau provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, July 12, 2019.
Put out a oriole feeder and had 7 hummingbirds on it in minutes.
Then hung up the hummingbird feeder and had 5 more.
We have had as many as 30 in the yard at one time, but that's mid August.
Archilochus colubris
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds prefer to feed on red or orange flowers (though it's not necessary to color the sugar water you put in a hummingbird feeder). Like many birds, hummingbirds have good color vision and can see into the ultraviolet spectrum, which humans can’t see.
Oh my goodness! This is a lifer for my yard birds. I've only seen one other bird of this species, and only got one shot of it (Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive 2016). This was in the front yard, in God's garden, playing in the sprinklers on the Simpson's Stopper bush. Am I blessed or what! Thank You, Jesus.
This is such a great bird for me (practically homebound). This is at the same time as the Orange-crowned Warbler! Isn't that just something!
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Ruby Beach ist auf der Olympic Halbinsel an der Südseite des Olympic National Parks gelegen.
Ruby Beach hat seinen Namen von den rosafarbenen Edelstein-Fragmenten, die man im grauen Sand findet.
Als Teil des Olympic National Park bietet die Küste von Ruby Beach eine wunderschöne Aussicht über Berge, Gletscher, Regenwälder und jede Menge Wildnis.
1981 erklärte ihn die UNESCO zum Weltnaturerbe.
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A male Ruby-tailed Wasp. This is a composite of several images; combined using Zerene Stacker. Haven't seen many of these in the garden this year.
Ruby-tailed wasps are cuckoo wasps. The females lay their eggs in the nests of other solitary bee and wasp species.
Early Morning hummingbird. Shot through my open family room door. DeNoise in Lightroom Classic Enhance/DeNoise.
This female Ruby-throated Hummingbird posed nicely for several moments for a nice portrait session. On this day there were very few that perched more than a few seconds it seemed.
Each year I usually only have 3 hummingbirds. This fellow was the first to arrive, some two weeks before the female. He was also the first to leave. The female, and the juvenile left mid week the second week of October. Sad to see them go and hope they have a safe trip south.