I think this is a Rufous Hummingbird, but I may be mistaken. This little beauty loves nectar that is made up of a concoction of sugar and water. I use 1 cup of sugar to 4 cups of water, I bring it to a boil and then let it cool. The sugar needs to be completely dissolved, I imagine that with such a tiny throat, chunky nectar doesn’t go down all that well.
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I normally don’t like cropping an image so drastically, but I wanted to show you his beautiful copper feathers. Like so many other birds, I marvel at the creation of such beautiful, magical creatures.
It looks like a ruby throated to me, but I may also be mistaken.
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I wondered about that. The chest feather colors seem wrong for a rufous.
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They are quite similar, and there are good sites comparing the two. Here’s one: http://lansingwbu.blogspot.com/2017/08/rufous-vs-ruby-throated-hummingbird.html
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Thanks for the link. It’s really odd, the dark green of the one that comes here is so different from the two shown. The mystery continues.
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It is so beautiful!
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I agree! There are so many varieties, I’d love to have more come here. But I just don’t live in the right place, lol!
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What a wonderful colors
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He has similarities to the rufous hummingbirds in the I.D. pages, but the dark head and light belly are so sharply marked that it makes me wonder. It’s the closest thing I could find in the bird ID page, too, but still it doesn’t match perfectly. It’s a mystery….
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He has similarities to the rufous hummingbirds in the I.D. pages, but the dark head and light belly are so sharply marked that it makes me wonder. It’s the closest thing I could find in the bird ID page, too, but still it doesn’t match perfectly. It’s a mystery….
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I might do some more digging because those two areas just don’t fit anything I’ve come across.
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Oh! Wonderful.
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Isn’t it beautiful? The perfection of every little feather.
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