Female hummingbird. A male has been coming for about a week (males arrive early to establish territories, females arrive later when food sources are more reliable) but only when it's dark, way before sunrise or well after sunset. This is the first female I've seen this season and this was early morning too but with just enough light for my camera. Welcome back, smol friend!
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird
A welcome visitor stopped by today for some refreshment. The zinnias were to its liking and in return I received a brief display of entertaining dance in flight.
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Ruby-throated hummingbird and its chick sitting on a teaspoon
By: Arthur A. Allen
From: The Book of Bird Life
1961
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Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Looking for Another Flower to Plunder at Castellow Hammock Preserve, Miami, Florida by Paul Fernandez
Via Flickr:
Details best viewed in Original Size.
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PSA: it may be getting colder but there are still Ruby-throated Hummingbirds moving through! Keep your feeders up and filled until the end of the month-- by then nearly all of them will have moved through. Keeping your feeders up will not prevent hummingbirds from migrating and if anything will help young birds, birds disrupted by storms, and stragglers make their way to the tropics.
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ruby-throated hummingbird
reference photo by david turgeon https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/301277181
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Sunday Birding 7/30/23
I had a lot of fun birding yesterday! Saw some of my favorite birds and a few new ones!!
I didn’t see as many around the pond, but I still saw my favorite funky lil’ guy, the green heron:
You can also see a frog in the left hand corner!
Some juvenile red-winged blackbirds:
A mourning dove:
I’ve been spotted!
At the arboretum, had to take some pictures of some pretty flowers:
some water lilies:
you can see another frog in this one!
A wild Kansas sunflower:
Big flower:
A turtle, relaxing out of the water:
Another big flower:
A butterfly! So pretty:
I saw so many of these guys out yesterday! A male northern cardinal:
I saw some more snowberry clearwings too:
Another male cardinal:
A wood pewee. There were two of these guys out, flying around, getting some bugs to eat:
A downy woodpeck, perched on top of a feeder:
A female cardinal, grabbing a treat:
A male indigo bunting! I met and helped a really nice older couple find this guy too. He was at the very top of the tree:
Some hummingbirds!
A male indigo bunting again, singing his little heart out:
Some pretty yellow flowers:
Some neat purple ones:
I thought this was a cool picture, an indigo bunting and an eastern bluebird:
I was SHOCKED when I saw this guy! A blue grosbeak!!! I almost confused him for an indigo bunting, but he’s too big, and you can see the brownish-red on his wings:
Some more water lily flowers:
Other neat flowers I saw:
A bee getting some pollen:
one last hummingbird:
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Nature's colors stimulate the mind with an influence to effect endearment.
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