Female adult Allen hummingbird
Female adult Allen hummingbird
Female adult Allen hummingbird
At Chrissy Field in San Francisco I captured this shot of what I believe to be a male adult Anna's hummingbird. He was quite still and posing on a branch.
Male adult Anna's hummingbird
Female adult Allen hummingbird
Female adult Allen hummingbird
At Chrissy Field in San Francisco I captured this shot of what I believe to be a male adult Anna's hummingbird. He was quite still and posing on a branch.
Male adult Anna's hummingbird
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The Anna's Hummingbird is the most common hummingbird found in Southern California. It is also one of three species of hummingbirds, along with Allen's and Costa's, that are permanent residents of the US or Canada. Also, unlike most other species of hummingbirds, they have a minimal song.
Here is a very interesting fact about the Anna's Hummingbird: it was originally only found on the Pacific slope from Baja California to San Francisco. This bird has increased its population and expanded its breeding range in recent years to Vancouver, British Colombia, east to southern Arizona. This expansion is believed to be due to the introduction of exotic flowering plants, especially Eucalyptus, red-hot-poker and tree tobacco,and by the proliferation of hummingbird feeders.
Anna's Hummingbirds have an unusually early breeding season. It is believed that the plant gooseberry and the hummingbird have evolved together, which may help explain why a favorite native food source of the Anna's Hummingbird is red gooseberry, an abundant plant that flowers early in spring. This species of hummingbird also consumes more insects than any other North American hummingbirds, catching small flying insects on the wing in the manner of a flycatcher, or by hover-gleaning among the leaves and twigs of trees. Or they find sustenance at the sap wells of sapsuckers or by pilfering insects from the webs of spiders. The Anna's Hummingbird eats more arthropods than most hummingbirds.
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Happy hummingbird watching everyone!
Zoe Ann Hinds
Thank you for the very interesting and informative comment! -- Good Acres
These are truly fabulous photos and a bird that we don't get over here at all... I've been enjoying a juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker getting lessons off both parents around our garden today but sadly no pics as yet!
Miranda
I enjoy your blog and your photographs.
Regards,
Philip
Great pictures. I love watching hummingbirds take baths. I've had them bath in the spray of water from the hose when I'm watering plants. It's too cool to have a hummer buzzing around in front of you. Thanks for the great blog.
Probably my most favorite creature! What wonderful pictures. Thank you for posting.
A few weeks ago a humming bird ran into my window. My husband picked him up and we got a picture of it sitting in his hand before it flew off.
How amazing are these little guys?:)
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