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Hummingbird’s Amazing Ruby Throat
I took these two photos a couple of minutes apart. Sun was shining in the first — that's the only difference.
Read more about hummingbird feathers here, from David Sibley. I think I see a "Bird Watcher" column in the works.
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Awesome! ps had a male in our garden this morning–throat gleaming–it even hovered right in front of us at the window as if to say thank you or bye!
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Amazing! How beautiful! Thanks–
Enid -
Beautiful!
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Thank you!
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Hummingbirds will use raw sheep wool to make their nests. I put some in a suet block holder. Great pictures Jim!
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Nice!
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We love them at our feeders and they have been joined constantly by two downy woodpeckers who are now addicted to the sugar water.
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RF
Awesome! ps had a male in our garden this morning–throat gleaming–it even hovered right in front of us at the window as if to say thank you or bye!
Enid
Amazing! How beautiful! Thanks–
Enid
Marianne Herrmann
Beautiful!
Jim Wright
Thank you!
Jill brown
Hummingbirds will use raw sheep wool to make their nests. I put some in a suet block holder. Great pictures Jim!
Barbara
Nice!
sallyt.
We love them at our feeders and they have been joined constantly by two downy woodpeckers who are now addicted to the sugar water.