anna's hummingbird

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley,

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ

Hi Folks; Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ and added Aloe Vera in a oval mat

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ this morning under sunny blue skies without a cloud in sight.

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ 1/17/2012

Captured in our garden in 2011. Replaced background

Hi Folks Captured little Anna's in our garden and digitally painted it in CS5 & Alien Skin Art with Crayon impasta. Best regards Uncle Gus

Pastel of a Hummingbird captured in our garden and digitalized using CS5 & Alien Skin Snap Art

Hi Folks; Beautiful sunny day with bright blue sky this morning so I took a few shots with Olympus Pen mirrorless camera of a hummer on the feeder and a Aloe Vera plant beside a Cholla Cactus. I removed the feeder from the Anna's Hummingbird, then moved it onto the Aloe Vera backgound, gave a...

Male Anna's Hummingbird photographed in our garden

Photographed in our garden

Firstly, this is a composite. Two images of the exact same bird, taken at the same time of day, in the same light. The point of the composite is to illustrate how the irridescent quality of the gorget is affected by how the light is refracted off of the feathers, producing the red/magenta hues...

Just another in the series...

Just another in the series...

Stretching

So few of these this summer; almost no Selasphorus. Just didn't make it this far south.

The numbers of hummingbirds, this year, is way down. There are several hypothesis being advanced. The one I subscribe to is abundance of food. Since there was a real excess of rain, and snow, this year there was a late, and long, bloom of nectering flowers along the migration rout. As a result...

I'd almost forgotten these. I posted some of my flight photos on Facebook and asked my friends which one I should submit. My sister-in-law commented "What about your hummingbird pictures?" So I searched back through my files and, sure enough, they were less than a year back. So here's...