a #ThrowbackThursday to April when Violet bellied Hummingbirds showed us how gals could be pals... ❤️ (i have photo'd 50 species of hummingbirds, allow me to bore you with my boasting & my posting! 🤣 ) #BirdsOfMastodon #Bird #Birding #Hummingbirds #HummingbirdPhotography #BirdPhotography #Feeder #Panama #Cute

You know how you join your first photography workshop & everybody else is already a f'n good photographer? What brought them to the workshop? What else but the chance to photograph our #WildlifeWednesday hero of the day, the amazing Marvelous Spatuletail!!! ❤️ (i've photo'd 50 species of hummingbirds, this is one of the most legendary) #BirdsOfMastodon #Bird #Birding #Hummingbird #Photograph #Photography #BirdPhotography #Peru #EndangeredSpecies #Nature #Wildlife #Unusual

they may call me the plainest puffleg but they will get the bad attitude if they do-- #TongueOutTuesday Greenish Puffleg i have photo'd 50 species of hummingbirds, some have little puffs... #BirdsOfMastodon #Bird #Hummingbird #Blep #BirdPhotography #Photograph #Nature #Peru #Green

nothing to see here just the world's biggest scariest bee pollinating your garden!-- (actually, just a woodstar trying to pass as scary while claiming all your flowers) i have photo'd 50 species of hummingbirds, the woodstar group is always hilarious because they try to fly up on you like a bee in sound & the way they move #BirdsOfMastodon #Bird #Hummingbird #BIrdPhotography #BirdInFlightPhotography #PhotoMonday #Fotomontag #Wildlife #Nature #Garden

Monday stinks, and I have spoken-- angry wren #Fotomontag #PhotoMonday #Monday #MondayMood #Wren #Bird #Photograph #BirdPhotography #Funny

I've photo'd 50 of the 147 species of #hummingbirds i've seen, today's picture, the Wire-crested Thorntail is truly one of the treasures... #BirdsOfMastodon #Birding #Birds #Hummingbird #BirdPhotography #BirdInFlightPhotograph #Photograph #Garden #Peru #Nature

i've photo'd 50 species of the 147 species of hummingbirds i've seen, while on the topic of accessible #hummingbirds, I can recommend the sassy Blue-chested Hummingbird i called this image, "Ta da, i am here, your life now has meaning" #BirdsOfMastodon #Bird #Hummingbird #Photograph #Photography #BirdPhotography #BIrdInFlightPhotography #Nature #Panama

for #ThrowbackThursday let's have a look at the Ecuadorian Piedtail in birb's old-fashioned garb... "Pied" is an old-timey word meaning "black & white," we could see this birb coming a long ways even before tail flaring began by looking for what I called the "Peter Pan collar" i've photo'd 50 species of #hummingbirds, had only 1 day to get this 1 at birb's famous haunt, a tire shop's bird feeders in NW Peru #BirdsOfMastodon #Birding #Birds #Photography

#WildlifeWednesday #Dragonfly

Let's celebrate #WildlifeWednesday with another friendly & accessible hummingbird, the Fork-tailed Woodnymph, both sexes are pretty bold, but they look quite different and the male is a great one to practice the glitter... #Photography #Photograph #BirdPhotography #Bird #Hummingbird #Birding #Nature #Peru