Hummingbird Garden Delight Purple

by Karen Adams

Title

Hummingbird Garden Delight Purple

Artist

Karen Adams

Medium

Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography

Description

Gardens are places of constant change. Sometimes the beauty lasts a month, sometimes a week, sometimes a day, and sometimes it lasts just a few seconds. I was lucky to capture this very brief moment of joy as a little female Ruby-throated Hummingbird ignored my presence and sipped at a Butterfly bush blooming in my Ohio garden. I clicked away as fast as I could to capture this encounter with such a shy and speedy creature!

The male Ruby-throated Hummingbird has the distinctive bright ruby red gorget, but the larger female and the immature bird lack the gorget, instead possessing a white chin and throat with variable amounts of thin, dark streaking, and have a dark, slightly-forked tail with white edging. All ruby-throated hummingbirds have a bright, metallic-green back and crown, which often appears darker on the males, and white underparts with greenish flanks. The plumage of the ruby-throated hummingbird, however, varies with the intensity of the light and, consequently, often appears almost black. The ruby-throated hummingbird has a long, straight, thin bill which allows it to extract nectar from deep flowers. I was lucky on this day that the sun shone brightly, making the lovely green back glisten in the light.

It really was an afternoon delight . . . if only for about 60 seconds!

This collage has a white background, but I made several versions of this that you can see in my Series Gallery.

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December 21st, 2016

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