Isn’t that a lovely word? It’s colloquial Spanish for humming bird, and I have become familiar with the term by following a wonderful blog Las Aventuras.
I took these shots of humming birds while up in Strawberry. I was very busy reading and relaxing, but managed to get a few shots.
I’m not very good a identifying humming birds and so have asked Chris to help. I’m guessing this is a female of some kind.
And my angles weren’t the best, but I needed to stay seated or risk scaring the little jewels away.
Looks like this one is flying on one wing and a prayer, but it’s an optical illusion because their little wings go so fast.
Here’s another word I learned from Chris…Las Libélulas which is pronounced "Lee-bay-loo-lah". As Chris says, it’s a fun word to say. I don’t have a recent picture of one, but here is an older one from a fun trip with Tracy to one of the lakes at Estrella Mountain Ranch.
It’s so nice to be exposed to lots of new things by following blogs from all over the country as well as the world. Makes the world a smaller, friendlier place.
Okay, Chris, help me out with my humming bird shots…such that they are.
8 comments:
very busy reading and relaxing...lol... :)
These are beautiful shots..wow! They are tiny little sweeties, aren't they? So cool to watch.
Great photos, Magpie, and you know I love that dragonfly photo!
Okay, I'm up for the challenge:) These are a real treat. I think this is the same hummingbird. You've given me 3 great angles with excellent detail. So I grab my Sibling's Hummingbirds of North America guide.
The pics. Straight Black bill(ruling out Broad Bill, Lucifer and White Ear). Some color around the gorget(throat/body)(rules out Violet Crowned and a bunch of others), a little splash of white at the corner of the eye, no yellow coloring that I can tell in the pics(ruling out Rufous, Allen's, Broad Tail)...but is it a female or juvenile male?
Because of the not so uniform coloring on the gorget and shorter bill, I'm going with a Juvenile Male Anna's Hummingbird in these pics but I could be in over my head:)
oo hummingbirds are so neat...but i def love dragonflies...at the fish hatchery in branson there were tons of them...
Great shots. I hope you had a great weekend.
Oh, yes, Chris is my hummingbird expert too! He helped me one of mine recently.
And that dragonfly is to die for. I can never manage to get a dragonfly to pose for me unless it's on an old metal ladder with pain drippings on it or on a piece of gravel in the driveway!n I too love that word he taught us. I think it sounds like the romantic name of a Latin jezebel in a dimestore novel!
Cute little hummer pictures and the dragonfly, WOW such beautiful lighting and background!
These are great shots! Not easy subjects either.
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