This is my contribution to Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Word that contains the letter U prompt.
I decided to go with a natural history theme and had a few ideas for the challenge before thinking of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
As this bird doesn’t have a ruby coloured throat it’s a female. Given how smart the birds plumage is I suspect that it’s a juvenile female hatched from an egg earlier in the summer. It was photographed on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario in August.
15 replies on “Ruby-throated Hummingbird”
So cute!
The males can be very aggressive, sometimes fighting to the death.
Ohh!!!
They will fight over territory until one is exhausted. Sometimes the losing male is too exhausted to get to a food source.
The ways of nature can seem cruel but I guess they were meant to do that 😟
True. The rule for a nature photographer is never interfere. I watched two males fight until one was lying exhausted on the ground. It never recovered and died a short time later.
Poor thing
Sometimes it’s hard not to interfere.
I can imagine
Oh what a gorgeous hummingbird capture 😀
Thanks Cee. I was considering a few nature species until the double U in Ruby-throated Hummingbird occurred to me.
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Stunning! Nice work.
Thanks Teressa. Once I thought of the two U in the name it was an obvious choice.