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As captured by Big Rock Head Friday evening through the southwest-facing pane of my bay-style picture window, a hummingbird briefly loitering near a feeder (not visible, stage left). I think it's an impressive shot considering that (1) BRH snapped it using the low-res camera in an iPhone 3G and (2) these shorties dart around like something out of Area 51, on crank. At this point my avian guides are failing me on identification. More research is needed.
That's a great picture. The one we got a month ago was easier than that one.
ReplyDeleteWe had one (of MANY that swarm our yard) hovering around in the garage, and one day we found him paws up at the center line edge of the garage floor. Figured he got stuck as the door was going down and bought the farm.
We left him on the grass line at the edge of the bushes...gone the next day.
59er: we don't get as many here in the middle of the Corn Belt as you do in warmer climes, so they're a treat to see. And we only get one species --- ruby-throated, although it's hard to see the rubies unless they're at full rest on a feeder and peering directly into the living room with the sun hitting them just right.
ReplyDeleteToo bad about your shorty. Whenever a larger creature, say a squirrel or rabbit, suffers a kinetically-driven brain hemorrhage for some unknown reason, the carcass may serve temporarily as a cautionary prop for the rest of his tribe. But somehow it disappears after an evening or two. It baffles science, as W.C. Fields once said.