Anna's hummingbird on a blackberry branch (Calypte anna)

Opened this in Photoshop and cropped it and played with adjusting levels and contrast and eventually decided nothing I did was really an improvement, so this is simply a crop of the full image. This was the third time I went to the park and saw this hummingbird on the same branch of the blackberry bush.

I'm sure it's feasting on the Blackberries and you got yourself and us a great image of this Anna 's Humming Bird Vingio! A brilliant image!

A well detailed close up portrait.

No blackberries this early. I went to this park a few weeks ago to eat lunch and saw a male Anna's (almost certainly this same bird) doing dives to impress a female. If you've never seen this you should try to find a video. They fly a hundred feet up and dive like a rock straight down, flaring their tail feathers as they near the bottom of their dive, and the feathers actually make a chirp sound that's louder than they can make with their tiny voice boxes. Their tail feathers vibrate kind of like the reed in an oboe. So cool to get to witness this!

Such a handsome species of hummingbird. Well done vingio!

That's a lovely picture showing his beautiful red throat.

Many thanks for showing us this wee hummer Carl.

delia todd said:

That's a lovely picture showing his beautiful red throat.

Many thanks for showing us this wee hummer Carl.

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Those tail feathers vibrate like the reed in an oboe to produce a chirp sound louder than they can make with their tiny voice boxes.