The Costa's in your photo is male. Females are almost all green.
Can you see the purple, red or orange feathers? Costa's, Black-chinned and Anna's will all have green bodies so that should look some consistent shade to you. You'll need to look at the head and chin colors and shape to ID the...
Looks like a Black-chinned. For quick hummingbird ID -
Purple chin with no flares = Black-chinned male
Purple chin with flares = Costa's male
Red head and chin (and larger than the others) = Anna's male
Orange head with brown sides = Rufous male
All the females will pretty much be green and...
The ones with the full red head are male Anna's hummingbird. The incomplete purple headed one you have there is male Costa's hummingbird. You should also see ones with purple chins, no purple flaring around the neck and green heads, that will be male Black-chinned hummingbird. The females of all...
Anna's hummingbird sticks around the entire US west coast all year. Costa's hummingbird are found around SoCal and down into baja. The others (black chinned, rufous, etc.) will migrate up your way from Mexico.
The Cornell Lab is a good resource on all things bird -...
Nice job taking care of those feeders. I used to be a part of a hummingbird banding project. Between banding sessions I was in charge of keeping feeders filled. Cooked up gallons of sugar water. One site had four feeders that had to be refilled pretty much daily. We'd band between 1500 and 2000...
My family has a cabin up in the mountains. It has internet service so we keep a TV with a firestick up there to watch at night. Went up one weekend and got hit with Netflix telling me I'm sharing my password. Had to take the firestick back with us and log in on the home network for it to work...
It's time for a mushroom hunt after a week of rain. I have no idea what most of them are and no, before anyone asks, I didn't taste any of them. Olympus OMD EM1 M2 with 60mm macro
He most likely would have been well paid for that interview. But there was no way Waters would sully his own integrity and self respect in that way. Besides, Santos would be to easy of a joke for him, and as he said in the show "I only make fun of the things I love and Trump".
My wife and I were at a John Waters (the film director/writer) Christmas show last night. He opened up a Q&A session with the audience after his set. Someone asked him if he ever turns down work. He responded that he was recently asked to sit down and conduct an interview with George Santos...
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