Meet Napoleon: If he weighs more that an oz. I'd be surprised. He will run off good sized woodpeckers and any other smartass birds that dare try to sip from HIS feeder. Other humming birds don't even try anymore. In the 19 years we've had feeders out there has never been any H-Bird like this one.
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August 15, 2020, 04:24 PM
DetonicsMk6
What a gorgeous picture!
August 15, 2020, 04:53 PM
Z06
Thank you. The best part is that he rests directly next to the kitchen window and 'poses' for 1/2 hour at a time. He has his back to the feeder and looks right into the camera. He does leave to run off others but returns to watch us.
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August 15, 2020, 05:21 PM
ensigmatic
Very cool!
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August 15, 2020, 08:04 PM
bendable
That's weird coloration, What the breed?
What county r u in?
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August 15, 2020, 08:10 PM
MikeGLI
Great capture. What gear are you using?
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August 15, 2020, 11:35 PM
dry-fly
That’s too funny... my mom has H Bird feeders up and was just telling me about a pissy little one that runs all the other hummingbirds off.
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August 15, 2020, 11:48 PM
P220 Smudge
Beautiful bird, and an amazing picture. The composition is great and the lighting looks surreal. Wow.
It’s fun to see how territorial some of them will get. When I was a boy, we had a feeder on the back patio and there were these iridescent green and purple hummingbirds that frequented it until this larger one with a red head showed up and chased them off. Looked like something out of a war flick with aerial dogfights.
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August 15, 2020, 11:52 PM
Z06
Not sure of the breed. USA.
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August 16, 2020, 08:27 AM
MRBTX
Great shot, beautiful little guy.
August 16, 2020, 09:53 AM
huskerlrrp
Excellent photograph. They are fast birds! They are also very territorial in the Southeast and "fights" are a commonplace at the feeder. For the most part, we get Ruby Throated variety.This message has been edited. Last edited by: huskerlrrp,
August 16, 2020, 10:41 AM
pulicords
quote:
Originally posted by Z06: Not sure of the breed. USA.
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Costa's Hummingbird. We've got plenty of varieties of hummingbirds here. Just another advantage of living in Arizona, eh?
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August 16, 2020, 02:20 PM
Z06
Thanks pulicords, I posted this guy a little over a year ago and someone mentioned that it was a a Costa's. This one (smaller than a golf ball) was also hell on wings with any other flying critter that dared try to use "his" feeder. He did let me photograph him outside.
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August 17, 2020, 12:41 PM
UTsig
Great picture, what a colorful critter. We have black chinned here, not near as much color.
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August 18, 2020, 03:03 AM
bendable
I remember we had 7 or 8 that would share the three feeders, nice as nice could be. Back in AZ.
Up here in the mid west, they seem bitchy.
I wonder if something in their world is causing behavior problems.
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August 18, 2020, 12:22 PM
just1tym
Beautiful image Z! Napoleon looks to be quite the character, he looks content to be part of the family
