Sometimes you've gotta back yourself into a new day…
…or come about it sideways
instead of meeting it head-on.
(And sometimes –okay, often–you've gotta reframe a picture gone wrong.)
Winging It
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A Joyful Noise
Sometimes you've gotta back yourself into a new day…
…or come about it sideways
instead of meeting it head-on.
(And sometimes –okay, often–you've gotta reframe a picture gone wrong.)
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True…and beautiful too 🙂
I’m trying to capture them in motion, but they don’t make it very easy. 🙂
Hummingbirds never cease to amaze me.
Same here. I hope it’s always that way. 🙂
Photogenic from every angle. 🙂
They sure are! Even when this photographer isn’t all that skilled at capturing them in flight…
What kind of hummingbird is this? These guys don’t come to Missouri, as far as I know. (I’ve only seen the ruby-throated and the rufous hummingbirds.) However, the conservation department does have a list of all the hummingbirds ever positively ID’d in Missouri:
Green violet-ear,[n 1] Colibri thalassinus (A)
Ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris
Black-chinned hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri (A)
Anna’s hummingbird,[n 1] Calypte anna (CA)
Calliope hummingbird, Selasphorus calliope (A)
Rufous hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus
(A = accidental visitor)
(N1 means recorded fewer than five times in the state’s history)
It’s likely an Annas Hummingbird. Or maybe a Rufous. Hard to tell the two apart, at least for me…their coloring is very similar. Beautiful, either way. 🙂
I’d lean toward the rufous, due to the rump feathers. But I don’t know what species are native (or accidental) to California. If it’s a different species then I wouldn’t know it.
Oh, that’s an interesting way to distinguish them–thanks!
Annas & Rufous Hummingbirds are very common here. Extraordinary, but commonly found, year ’round. 🙂
P.S. Love the salvia!
Thanks, me too! It’s hard to find true-blue flowers, and drought-tolerant plants especially. I had to move them a couple of times, but once I found the right spot in my backyard garden, they really took off. And the hummingbirds flock to them, so everyone wins!