Ruby-throated Hummingbirds
©Joreta Gregory
Published:
September 29, 2008
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds swarm a feeder in the fading light of the setting sun.
Joreta Gregory noticed the shadows cast by the hummingbirds
(Archilochus colubris) as they converged at her backyard feeder on a mid-September evening in Walnut Hill, Illinois. She used a Kodak Z740 digital camera to take the photo. "They are preparing for their long flight southward, and I like to think they were telling me goodbye," she wrote.
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