2 peas and a teeny tiny bee: Mumday post

Quick Costa's hummingbird

On the road, but here's 1 shot of a teensy hummingbird from the

hummingbird aviary at the AZ-Sonora Desert Museum.

Such fierce little creatures.

I am captivated by those tiny toes.

=)

xobb

Newsflash: Hummingbird Sits Still! Seastars Running in Streets!

Well,  one out of two:

 

Que milagro, no?

I believe it's a female Anna's hummingbird.

=) 

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P.S. Thinking about initiating Mumday. One day a week I post pic or pics and no words. I've seen Wordless Wednesday, but thinking Monday might be nice for me as I continue to recover from weekend.

Any opinions? Thoughts, suggestions? I'm all ears.

We are humming birds' seastars...

[biobabbler date: 4/28/2010]

Early this morning I spied my first hummingbird actually using our feeder.

Since then, I've seen several more visits. Very exciting for me, as this is my first feeder and I REALLY want good pictures of a few hummingbirds. So, hoping word will spread.

One was actually SITTING while feeding (I'm guessing a female Anna's, Calypte anna). I was on the phone so couldn't get the camera, plus I was loathe to scare it away. But, what a rare treat to see one of these metabolic wonders looking calm, and moving deliberately (lean head back, put beak into feeder, feed, pull beak out, rest: repeat).

Knobby sea star, Pisaster giganteus.

I was musing earlier today that we are probably hummingbirds' sea stars. We move so slowly, by comparison, that all of our goings on are probably barely detectable.

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