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Another #Broadtailed #Hummingbird looking up at a feeder-usurper from Redstone, Colorado, 2021

#BirdPhotography #hummingbird #HummingbirdsOfInstagram #hummingbirdPhotography
#vogel #birdsofbsky #Featheredfriends
#BroadTailedHummingbird #HummingbirdFeeder
#OMSystem #MicroFourThirds #OlympusWildlife
October 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
munozrick.bsky.social
#Broadtailed #Hummingbird at #HudsonGardens in Colorado

#BirdPhotography #hummingbirds #HummingbirdsOfInstagram #hummingbirdPhotography
#vogel #birdsofbsky #Featheredfriends
#BroadTailedHummingbird #HummingbirdFeeder
#OMSystem #MicroFourThirds #OlympusWildlife #olympusBirding
#olympus
October 7, 2026 at 11:01 PM
joannelowry.bsky.social
Female broadtailed hummingbird sitting on an oak branch at the Mogollon Visitor Center, AZ Hwy 260, Payson, AZ.
#birds, #wildlife, #nature, #hummingbird.
August 27, 2026 at 11:59 AM
copperbora.bsky.social
Happily reporting that these Animal Den Miniatures models are DONE apart from varnish & the hummingbirb needing orange interference paint on its bib. What's funny is that I clearly remember being in an art supply store staring at the paint I now need going "Yeah, I'll NEVER need that paint!" Fool!😂
A detailed model of a Sally Lightfoot Crab, coloured layer by layer with Copic markers. It's a primarily an orange crab with red, dark brown and bold white markings. A front view of a broadtailed hummingbird 'painted' (again, Copic markers,) in the colours of a ruby-throated hummingbird. Sideview of the hummingbird. Rear view of the hummingbird; it features irridescent green-blue painted plumage!
October 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
copperbora.bsky.social
*further along

I have a super limited window to get these done due to falling temperatures but I will get there! Here's some other primed* prints awaiting colour; these were all either the result of art trading or sales in my Redbubble shop - thank you so much! 🥹❤️

(*The wolf needs more primer.)
From left to right, top to bottom, a cardboard tray full of white-primed 3D prints by Animal Den Miniatures: - Sally Lightfoot Crab (on its back) - Mongolian Wolf - Prancing Bison Bull (- The bison's stand, unprimed.) - Broadtailed Hummingbird in flight. - Przewalski's Horse stallion in a herding pose at full gallop (already affixed to his stand.) - African Wild Dog at a trot with repositioned tail (it broke during shipping so I decided that I wanted its wagger flying high!) All of these prints were sculpted by Animal Den Miniatures.
October 18, 2025 at 5:29 AM
copperbora.bsky.social
I made rad progress today on some present projects; I finished priming these 3D prints by Animal Den Miniatures yesterday so with several hours of weather with temps above 10°C, I busted out my Copic markers & a can of Workable Fixatif.

1st up: a broadtailed hummingbird (as a ruby throated.)
A series of work in progress photos of a 3D print of a broadtailed hummingbird in flight slowly getting coloured; in this first shot the entirely white-painted print has been treated to a coat of pastel green Copic marker. A coat or two on, the hummingbird model now has yellowish flight feathers and a darker green has been added to the body of the bird. Another shot further along, with more details and layers of green and yellow colour. The hummingbird as it currently is featuring the first hints of darker greens on its head and backs of its wings.
October 18, 2025 at 5:12 AM
copperbora.bsky.social
Thanks to some good sales in my Redbubble shop I have some cool gift projects to work on before Christmas! 😁❤️ (I am so inundated with projects lol.) I got these prints from MiniMaxing on Etsy ('cus Canadian seller = cheaper shipping,) but they were sculpted by the amazing Animal Den Miniatures!❤️
A highly detailed grey 3D print of a bull bison prancing/bucking on his hindquarters. I think that I'll temporarily name him 'Cupcake' because it's hilarious. Cupcake the playful bison plus two other 3D prints: a sally lightfoot crab and a broadtailed hummingbird. These will all be Christmas gifts! The epic Sally Lightfoot Crab sculpt! The hummingbird sculpt with its amazingly detailed lil' claws. I am so nervous about painting it and the crab!
July 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EmeraldBackdrop.
A female broadtailed #hummingbird hovers beneath a flowering stalk of ornamental yucca. She's been visiting this plant a lot because of those luscious flowers.
#BirdsOfFrontRange #iNat
A hummingbird with a rufous chest and green dots on her chin hovers with wings outstretched beneath a tiny arch of red yucca flowers. It's beak is inserted into one of the flowers near the top of the arch. The background is emerald green.
July 28, 2026 at 3:07 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay alt - #BestSideEye
Who knew Broadtailed #Hummingbirds could do side-eye?
#iNat #BirdsOfFrontRange
A female Broadtailed Hummingbird perches on the wire of a tomato basket. She is facing away from the view, but looking back over her shoulder with a look of utter disdain. The iridescent green of her back feathers shines in the sunlight.
July 12, 2026 at 4:05 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #BirdsofFrontRange #BirdsILoveToSee #hummingbird
Broadtailed Hummingbird hovers in front of a stem covered in tubular red flowers. Her wings are swept forward which has created vortices across her back, ruffling some of the feathers on her back.
July 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay
#BestOfJune26 #iNat
#BirdsOfFrontRange
#hummingbirds
Last week overcast skies let me get a shot of a female broadtailed hummingbird hawking gnats. Her lower beak is beginning to flex down so it can snap shut when it touches a gnat.
A hummingbird in mid-flight, against a grey sky with black dots all around her. Her wings are extended behind her. Her lower beak is bent back slightly as she prepares to snap on one of the gnats around her.
June 29, 2026 at 8:47 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #BirdsofFrontRange
Until I took masses of photos of #BirdsAndBuds last year, I didn't realize broadtailed #hummingbirds poached from buds that hadn't opened yet because they have more nectar. #Bokeh bonus.
A female hummingbird pikes her beak into a long red tubular flower that hasn't opened yet. An open flower just beneath her target dusts pollen on her anyway.
June 24, 2026 at 1:46 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #Nesting #BirdsofFrontRange #iNat
A female broadtailed hummingbird pulls out more nesting material than she can hold.
Great prompt, @robcrank68.bsky.social !
A female hummingbird seen from behind, so we see her dazzling iridescent green back feathers. She is hovering above a suet cage that instead holds dog hair. She is on the backstroke of her wing beat, as she tries to pull a huge hunk out. A female hummingbird. She has pivoted around so now we see her front -- pale belly, rufous flanks and greenish dots on her throat. She is hovering next to the suet cage holding dog hair, and has pulled a huge hunk out. But it's too much for her to hold! Most of it is floating away as it falls out of her beak. A female hummingbird on the backstroke of her wing beat. Out of the huge hunk of fuzz she pulled out, she is left with just a few strands.
June 11, 2026 at 12:27 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
#BirdoftheDay #SmallBirdsInFlight #SmallBirdSaturday #BirdsofFrontRange
On of my all time favorite photos of a female Broadtailed #Hummingbird threading her way through Agastache stems on her way to the next flower.
From August 2025
Rear view of a hummingbird with an iridescent green back flying *in between* flower stems. Her wings are fully outstretched, and twisted as she maneuvers in very close quarters.
April 4, 2026 at 12:27 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #PerfectLighting #birdsofFrontRange #hummingbird
Last summer was an awesome year for photographing hummingbirds!
Female/juvenile broadtailed hummingbird feeding on Agastache plant.
A female/juvenile broadtailed hummingbird is pushing its beak into a closed red tubular flower on a stalk of Agastache.
March 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
#WideOpenWings #BirdOfTheDay #hummingbird #BirdsOfFrontRange #TongueOutThursday
A female Broadtailed Hummingbird was darting around some ornamental yucca plants. It came straight at me, then saw me and ... Air brakes deployed! It stopped literally just a few inches from my lens.
From July 2025.
February 26, 2026 at 1:41 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
#birdoftheday #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #birdsofBluesky #iNat #hummingbird
Bird of the day is headshot, so here's a headshot of a Broad-tailed hummingbird poaching nectar from an agastache flower that hasn't opened yet. September, 2025.
The head of a female broadtailed hummingbird fills most of the photo - iridescent green feathers on her head and wings and scattered across her throat. Her forward swept wing holds her on position for her beak to pierce a closed tubular red flower.
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
Last of the summer's hummingbirds were fighting over the few remaining flowers in our pollinator garden today. It's October! Head South! #Pollinators #hummingbird #birdsofBluesky #iNat #plumescrolling #birdsofFrontRange
A puffed-up female broadtailed hummingbird perches on a wire plant cage. Leaves behind it are a mix of green and brown. A puffed up female broad-tailed hummingbird perches on a thin rose branch. Water drips from a branch behind it.
October 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
Female broadtailed hummingbird sips yucca flower nectar. Can't get much smaller.
#smallbird #birdoftheday #hummingbird #birdsofBluesky #plumescrolling
A female broadtailed hummingbird sips from a red ornemental yucca flower. Its wings are pulled back mid-wing beat, its beak is about halfway into the flower and its tummy looks very full.
September 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
Happy National Hummingbird Day!
A female broadtailed hummingbird forages among the Agastache.
#hummingbirdsofBlueSky #birdsofBlueSky #BirdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #nativeplants #naturalist 🌿🦜
Female broad-tailed hummingbird forages among hyssops, looking for just the right flower.
September 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
#WingtipWednesday
#nativepollinator #hummingbird #birdsofBluesky #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling
This broadtailed hummingbird rocketed towards me, then realized that I was in her way. Hard stop!
I've never seen the feathers in her wing pits deploy as air brakes before.
A hummingbird has her wings fully outstretched as she comes to a sudden stop. Feathers in her "armpits" point straight down, acting as extreme airbreaks. One foot is visible, as if she is putting it down to help her slow her speed. Her tongue is barely visible in a small blep. She has iridescent green feathers on her head and as stripes radiating from her beak to her chest. Her chest is white, with reddish-tan along the edges. Her wings are translucent.
August 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
#plumescrolling #FrontRangeNature #hummingbird #birds #nativepollinator 🦜🌿🌱🐝
On-the-wing shot of female broadtailed hummingbird hawking for insects this morning.
Ealy morning light hits a hummingbird as it hovers in mid air.
July 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
Happy Pollinator Week!
A female broadtailed hummingbird at my rosemary, from 2015.

#birds #Pollinators #nature #hummingbird #birdsofBluesky #plumescrolling
Seen from the rear, a hummingbird, wings fully stretched out, dips her beak into purple rosemary flowers.
June 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
amylawscigeek.bsky.social
Female broadtailed hummingbird with a beakful of animal hair for its nest.
West of Denver, Colorado
#hummingbird
#birdsofBluesky #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling
#naturalist
🦜🌿
A tiny female broadtailed hummingbird hovers in mid air. Her wings are swept back showing off her orangish sides. Her chest, neck and face are off white with iridescent green spangles. The top of her head and back is iridescent green, sparkling where the sun hits it. In her long black beak, she hold a tuft of animal fur to take back to her neat.
June 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EmeraldBackdrop. Here's a male Broadtailed hummingbird hovering in front of some green out-of-focus stuff. SE Arizona, May. #Birds #Birdwatching ©John Kaprielian
Male broad-tailed hummingbird in flight with a green background.
July 28, 2026 at 12:26 PM