Hummingbird and Red Hot Poker

Posted by Ed Cordes on Thu Sep 19, 2024 9:42 pm

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I have been travelling a lot and busy with many things. I finally got a chance to process some from around our Corning NY house. Gail has this interesting plant called a red hot poker AKA Kniphofia. However, I was lucky enough to observe and capture an image of a hummingbird feeding from it. A few days later the hummers migrated away. As always, click on image to see details.

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by Axel Hildebrandt on Fri Sep 20, 2024 11:30 am

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Cool-looking flower, Ed, makes the hummingbird look quite small in comparison.

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by david fletcher on Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:07 pm

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An amazing site with the flower demonstrating the diminutive size of the hummer. TFS Ed.

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by paul fletcher on Fri Sep 20, 2024 7:07 pm

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A fine image, Ed, always nice to see Hummingbird photographs here on Naturescapes. The flower is quite striking for it's colour and shape, plus a nice background captured here, as well. ( Have not had any success photographing Hummingbirds at the Poker flowers, where I am in Ontario, but I know they will feed at them, at times).

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by Cynthia Crawford on Sun Sep 22, 2024 8:56 pm

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A fun shot showing this little hummer with big ambitions. I hope she doesn't get lost in there

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