A male Ruby-throated Hummingbird works up the nerve to approach the feeder despite the presence of the big human with the big lens trying to get photos of the nearby hawks. He did make his move a few second later - and I have zero photos of him hovering near the feeder because he was too close for my big lens to focus on. But it was cool to have him that close. Horizontal image: the hummingbird is crouched on a branch, roughly facing left-to-right across the scene. Its wings are raised about a /14 as it prepares to launch. The bird's body feathers are brilliant green. They fade to white as they approach the throat, then abruptly switch to brilliant red, then too a slim divider of black just below and around the eye, and then back to brilliant free atop the head.

A male Ruby-throated Hummingbird prepares to approach the feeder despite the presence of the big human with the big lens photographing the nearby hawks.

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