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ruby-crowned kinglet

  1. Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

    Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

    Perched upon a tule reed in the marsh
  2. Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

    Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

    So glad these guys are back! Photographing the ruby crown one day will a lifetime achievement!
  3. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula calendula) Photographed on a chair of an outdoor picnic table.
  4. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet

    Here we can see a small spot of ruby-red peeking through its crown feathers indicating an adult male. Females and immature males lack red but it is usually concealed even on adult males. A common winter visitor and migrant to this area, this tiny songbird is a bundle of energy. They are...
  5. Never see enough of these cuties

    Never see enough of these cuties

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet Kinglets are tiny songbirds with relatively large heads, almost no neck, and thin tails. They have very small, thin, straight bills.
  6. Sipping Kinglet

    Sipping Kinglet

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet The ruby-crowned kinglet is a very small passerine bird found throughout North America. It is a member of the kinglet family. The bird has olive-green plumage with two white wing bars and a white eye-ring. Males have a red crown patch, which is usually concealed.
  7. Showing its Ruby Crown

    Showing its Ruby Crown

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  8. Ruby-crowned Kinglet.jpg

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet.jpg

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) Today will be my last post for a few weeks. I will be back on line tonight but my wife and I are headed to Panama for a few weeks and we leave in the morning. It is not a birding trip per se but I can not go anywhere without birding and photographing...
  9. Sipping Kinglet

    Sipping Kinglet

    A tiny bird seemingly overflowing with energy, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet forages almost frantically through lower branches of shrubs and trees.
  10. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  11. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet

  12. Spider!

    Spider!

    Didn't quite get it focused on the kinglet, but I like this shot anyway. Tiny bird with its tinier prey.
  13. Interesting Angle

    Interesting Angle

    Kinglets don't make it easy to get a good, flattering photo of them. Especially not while actively foraging between branches. This is the only properly focused photo I got of this one.
  14. Approaching a perch

    Approaching a perch

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet: Ruby-crowned Kinglets are olive-green birds with a prominent white eyering and white wingbar.
  15. Ruby-crowned kinglet

    Ruby-crowned kinglet

    Comin' at ya!
  16. Ruby-crowned Kinglet.jpg

    Ruby-crowned Kinglet.jpg

    These Ruby-crowned Kinglets are my smallest resident birds at the present moment. They are fast and always on the go and making a picture that is decent if difficult.
  17. Perched amid the Fall Foliage

    Perched amid the Fall Foliage

    As I am mostly surrounded by Pines and few deciduous trees I seldom get to take a picture of a bird around the Fall colored leaves.
  18. Find Me

    Find Me

    ;) ;)
  19. Such skinny legs

    Such skinny legs

    They really are so delicate looking.
  20. No Peanut Butter this time ;)

    No Peanut Butter this time ;)

    But waiting in line ;)
  21. Another PB lover

    Another PB lover

  22. Actually showing part of its Crown

    Actually showing part of its Crown

  23. So many around

    So many around

  24. Kinglet

    Kinglet

    I love these little guys
  25. I love these little guys/gals

    I love these little guys/gals

    And it actually perched still for a moment ;)
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