Anna's Hummingbird
©Tom Callahan
Published:
August 27, 2007
This immature male Anna's Hummingbird
(Calypte anna) could not resist the bubbling water in Tom Callahan's backyard in Phoenix, Arizona. Tom also hangs hummingbird feeders nearby.
He used a Canon Rebel XT digital camera with a Sigma 70-300mm zoom lens to take the photo.
You can see the bird at these great birdwatching hotspots
San Elijo Lagoon, San Diego County, CaliforniaLands End & Sutro Heights, San Francisco, CaliforniaHenderson Bird Viewing Preserve, Henderson, NevadaSee a female Anna's Hummingbird with a nestling View photos of other hummingbirds:
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Buff-bellied Hummingbird
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Costa's Hummingbird
- Purple-crowned Woodnymph
- Purple-throated Carib
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird perched
- Ruby-throated Hummingbirds swarming a feeder
- Rufous Hummingbird in flight at Oregon's William L. Finley NWR
- Rufous Hummingbird chicks in the nest
- Rufous Hummingbird hovering near a nectar feeder in British Columbia
- Rufous Hummingbird, close-up portrait of hovering bird
- Rufous Hummingbirds colliding in flight
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
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