Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Hummingbirds!

Are pretty cool... the females are tough to ID.








Black-chinned Hummingbird




Hey!  What's Kai bear doing in here?



More of this guy http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-chinned_Hummingbird/id


Black-chinned Hummingbird

 Anna's Hummingbird http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/annas_hummingbird/id


Sketchy man sighting...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketch_ball


Taken with my Canon SD800 using CHDK using the motion detection script.

Some links to bay area hummingbird page.
http://dixiesd.marin.k12.ca.us/dixieschool/Pages/naturetrail/hummingbird/hummers.html

How to ID... just remember Gorget... that should be your word of the day.
http://hummingbirdworld.com/h/id.htm

Gorget on a Hummingbird...
Gorget from joan of arc.




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