#male hummingbird

[thomas--bombadil]

In the bright sunlight, a hummingbird inspects budding hibiscus.

Soon it will bloom and provide food for this little creature.

[lunarlotuscove]

Stunning lil dude

Thursday, August 29th 2024 7:40 a.m.

[shroudkeeper]

The joy of bird watching right outside my garden patio.

[sunshinesight]

Shots of some ruby throated hummingbirds at the feeder. One of the Persephones turned out to be a young Dalton… and I finally got some shots of Dalton — who is adept at avoiding the camera.

[rondaincorporated]

Hummingbird Species, Part 117

Our bird of the day is the speckled hummingbird, Adelomyia melanogenys. Introduction: The natural world never fails to astound us with its breathtaking array of species, each uniquely adapted to its environment. Among the myriad of avian wonders, the speckled hummingbird, scientifically known as Adelomyia melanogenys, stands out as a truly enigmatic and captivating creature. With its dazzling…

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Daniel Riddle : Seen here is a Male Ruby Throated Hummingbird.

[birds-in-posts]

Green thorntail (Discosura conversii)

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[knuppitalism-with-ue]

All the dragons from the HTTYD stream. Detailed images below.

The designs from the original movie are basically perfect, which is why I didn't really dare to touch them... until a certain trailer dropped recently.

I'm a spiteful creature.

Anyway. Some ground rules. I tried to make these creatures overall a little bit more realistic and grounded without robbing them of the inherent whimsy that the originals had. All of them are tetrapods, so only 4 limbs max.

Nightfury

These guys have no more functional limbs to move on the ground. They are living stealth bombers. Silent fast fliers.

On the ground they flop around similar to seals, forming small colonies on top of tall cliffs.

Red Death

At a certain size it becomes unfeasible to fly for even a dragon. The Red Death stays on the ground using it's heavy armor and enormous size when raiding other dragon nesting colonies. it'as wings are more like spurs, to injure rivals in combat.

Gronkle

The original had a hummingbird style in flying , something that doesn't work for an animal of this size. My compromise is to make the wings rather stout and being able to be folded a lot.

Nadder

Easiest design, take a unfeathered theropod and combine it with a bearded dragon.

Shellfire

This was the last one I made on stream, it is one of the (in my eyes) worst designs from the shows, so a nice challenge to make it work a little better.

This guy is now a filter feeder, using its large horns to funnel water into its mouth.

Zippleback

Multi-headed dragons are really tricky. In my design I made one of the heads a parasitic male, similar to angler fish, that hitches a ride on the back of the larger female.

Monstrous Nightmare

One of the most classic dragons from the original movie. Lots of crocodilian influence here. The osteoderms on its back have pores from which it produces flammable secretions.

Razorwhip

A fast an agile dragon, but the original doesn't really show that in the head shape and all these spines don't help. I put some tapejarid influence into it.

Rumblehorn

The massive neck of this dragon doesn't work well in terms of aerodynamics, unless it's an inflatable display structure ;)

Whispering Death

The giant maw of this dragon is an even greater challenge, but when you give it the gular pouch of a pelican eel and turn these eyes into eye-spots, it works quite well.

And of course the Terrible Terror!

As you can see it's in my case a close relative of the nadder.

[lunarlotuscove]

Handsome lil bud at the feeder

Thursday August 15th 2024 5:52-5:55pm

[sebring5]

8.5-1 by Henry Via Flickr: Anna’s hummingbird

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

Ph. by thiscountry

Male Rufous Hummingbird

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Broad-Billed Hummingbird by Ruby 2417 Via Flickr: Madera Canyon, Green Valley, Arizona. Sept. 2024.

[amnhnyc]

Need a tiny cephalopod to brighten your day? Meet the bobtail squid (Euprymna berryi)! Also known as the hummingbird squid, this critter typically grows only up to 2 in (5 cm) in length; females are larger than males. This species lives in Indo-Pacific waters, inhabiting the ocean floor where it burrows beneath sand to rest or hide when under threat. Its striking color comes from chromatophores, or pigment-holding cells, distributed throughout its body.

Photo:maractwin, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

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Ruby-Topaz Hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Brazil

photograph by Ciro Albano

[inthecityofgoodabode]

June 2023: A Cat & Echoes Of What Could Be

Seen while walking: 

Back in the backyard garden: 

I mentioned before that I didn’t think we were going to see any grapes from our grapevine this year but it looks like someone decided it would be a good place to build a nest: 

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Close up of a male Violetcrowned Woodnymph hummingbird (Thalurania columbica) taken at the Tienda las Rosas near the El Dorado Lodge in the Santa Marta Mountains of Colombia.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ANAND VARMA