Broad-tailed Hummingbird at Agastache, against green space, Colorado juvenile or female

Broad-tailed Hummingbird at Agastache, against green space, Colorado juvenile or femaleHummingbirds can flap their wings 70 times a second and their heart rate can reach 1,260 beats per minute. That's a fast metabolism!

but was too tired to fly away

Limpkins nest in trees like egrets and herons

Mexico today

We had both Snowy and Piping Plover on this beach

Wish I knew the name of the beautiful flowers I run into abroad

but it is only found in southern South America

I like the play between analogous colors blue and lavender

Any small tubular flower fits her beak quite well

heading up from Central and northern S America to their breeding grounds in Canada

our group did not find the charming female with her fancy droopy black crest that swings about so seductively

This Kentucky Warbler shows his true colors by foraging along the ground as is his particular habit

In Colorado