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We love watching hummingbirds, those marvelous, tiny birds that flit around our home landscapes! We are looking forward to another fun hummingbird season in 2023.

We also enjoy hummingbird gardening, and designing our landscape to provide food and shelter for a variety of hummingbirds, butteflies, birds and other natural inhabitants of our world.

Shown here are a few quick favorites of some recent hummingbird sightings.

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Some of Our Favorite Ruby-throated Hummingbird Photos

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird on guard
Ruby-throated Hummingbird ... on guard and watchful of competitors

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird feeding on a pink Giant Zinnia, August 12, 2015, in East Texas
Ruby-throated Hummingbird enjoying necar from California Giant Zinnias!

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird resting between stops at the feeder
Resting between stops at the feeder
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird... preening
Ruby-throated Hummingbird ... preening

Fluffed-up Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Maybe a bit chilly! Fluffed-up Ruby-throated Hummingbird


Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Young male Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Hummingbird at rest, near Tyler Texas
Hummingbird feeding at Tyler Texas

Ruby-throated Hummingbird at feeder amidst Tropical Milkweed
Ruby-throated Hummingbird at feeder amidst Tropical Milkweed

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird protecting its food source in California Giant Zinnias!
Ruby-throated Hummingbird protecting its food source in California Giant Zinnias!

Rufous Hummingbird (R) sharing a feeder with a Ruby-Throat Hummingbird (L) (August, 2015)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (L) sharing a feeder with a Rufous Hummingbird (R) ... a rare sight in East Texas

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird hovering in mid-air
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird on a State of Texas shaped feeder
Ruby-throated Hummingbird on a State of Texas shaped feeder


Time to Migrate ... Let the Feeding Frenzy Begin!

Hummingbird feeding mania near Tyler Texas

Rain makes Ruby-throats thirsty! Scene at our yard, September 8, 2021, approaching peak fall migration
Rain makes Ruby-throats thirsty! Scene at our gardens September 8, 2021, approaching peak fall migration. It's crowded, but one more in the top corner is trying to find a spot to feed.

 

Group of Ruby Throat Hummingbirds at feeder - East Texas
Hummingbirds hovering at feeder in Texas

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird feeding ... and hovering!


Time to Rest!

Everybody needs to sit and rest sometimes! ... Hummingbird on a big chair
Hummingbird motionless on chair for 4 minutes ... then flew away!! (June 2012)
Everybody needs to sit and rest sometimes! ... Hummingbird sitting on a big chair. It was motionless for 4 minutes ... then flew away!!
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird ... sitting stunned after flying into a window ... it was fine, and flew off!
Ruby-throated Hummingbird ... sitting stunned after flying into a window ... it was fine, and flew off!

 

More Hummingbird Species

Broad-billed Hummingbird at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson
Broad-billed Hummingbird at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Hummingbird Aviary in Tucson (Staff Photo)

Rufous Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird ... out of its normal range, in Upper East Texas (August, 2019)

Hummingbird at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson
Hummingbird at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Hummingbird Aviary (Staff Photo)

Hummingbird at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson
Hummingbird at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Hummingbird Aviary (Staff Photo)

Hummingbird at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson
"Fluffy" at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Hummingbird Aviary (Staff Photo)

Hummingbird nest at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson
Hummingbird nest at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Hummingbird Aviary (Staff Photo)

Rufous Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus)
Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Allen's Hummingbird
Male Allen's Hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin)
Source:
Steve Berardi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Green Violet-Ear Hummingbird
Green Violet-ear Hummingbird (Colibri thalassinus)
Source:
Mdf [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Rivoli's Hummingbird
Rivoli's Hummingbird (Eugenes fulgens)
Source:
By www.naturespicsonline.com [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

 

White Eared Hummingbird
White-eared (Hylocharis leucotis)
Source:
By Seabamirum on Flickr (Flickr) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Albino Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Carrol County, Maryland, July, 2019

Albino Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Carrol County, Maryland, July, 2019
(Photo by and courtesy of M. Tegges
)

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