Hummingbirds in Andes Mountains found nesting in colonies, defying norms https://phys.org/news/2025-03-hummingbirds-andes-mountains-colonies-defying.html paper: https://academic.oup.com/auk/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ornithology/ukae063/7912599
"#Hummingbirds are often highly aggressive and territorial, but in the tough terrains of the #Andes Mountains, researchers found a species of #hummingbird is living cohesively with its peers... They live in a very harsh environment above the tree line... they may get easier access to mates and food resources by an exchange of information between members of a colony."
From a couple of summers ago: Me releasing a #hummingbird that somehow found its way into our barn. Granddaughters are assisting.
A pretty ruby throated hummingbird to kick off daylight savings, happy Sunday!
Available here...https://tina-lecour.pixels.com/featured/hummingbird-in-the-crocus-tina-lecour.html
At the hummingbird feeder today:
Anna's Hummingbird (???)
Captured with a homemade camera trap based on a #RaspberryPi Zero W.
Bestial Human Hummingbird
Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Colin Chapman
The smallest of the bestial human birds, hummingbirds are hyperactive omnivores with a love of all things sweet. Though frequently sporting attractive plumage, their need to consume their own bodyweight in protein and sugars every day means they are constantly on the lookout for food and are considered undesirable guests. As a result, they are seldom welcomed into human communities even when accompanied by humans and human mutants, and must often be covertly carried into a settlement by slipping inside a large companion’s backpack and bedroll.
RPG Overviews on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmR1zStcU38
#hummingbird #birdman #beast #bestial #manimal #RPG #ttrpg #bestialhuman #noaiart #wasteland #mutantepoch #apocalyptic #expansionrules #postapocalyptic #themutantepoch #outlandsystem #outlandarts #mutants #mutant #epoch #inkartist #Kamloopsartist #apocalyptic #fallout like #gammaworld #roleplayinggame #indiegame #flyer
Baby #hummingbird update! I expect they’ll be leaving the nest in the next couple days. #birds
Looking forward to seeing the hummingbirds sipping on flowers soon!
"Hummingbird Haven" is available here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/hummingbird-haven-peggy-collins.html
Beautiful! adding some tags so more people get to see it!
I mentioned the hummingbird nest off our porch, right? There are two hatchlings now, we happened to get a pic from above. Mom isn't gonna fit on that nest for long.
birds waiting for spring
their sweet songs are tenacious
anticipation...
#mastoprompt tenacious
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-little-bird-art-1-sharon-cummings.html
green buds push through ice
winter can be tenacious
the promise of Spring!
#mastoprompt tenacious
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/fresh-spring-garden-art-sharon-cummings.html
Released some stuff this weekend. Will explain more tomorrow, but:
- our small word game made it into the App Store
- I made macro-based routing for #Hummingbird (#Swift HTTP library/framework)
- wrote a reference app to show off macrorouting, and a fork of the templating library we're using in our real work project ( https://studioworks.app/ )
Server-Side Swift in 2025 feels so much like the good bits of being part of what was happening with #PHP in ~2000-2005.
A buff-winged starfrontlet #hummingbird (Coeligena lutetiae) in Cali, Colombia ona #Fuschia flower.
Photograph: Joaquín Sarmiento.
Two photos of the same male Anna’s hummingbird. The photos were one second apart. The feathers’ iridescence is structural, not from dyes. It’s caused by layers of tiny granules of melanin in the feather barbules. The melanin is dark brown or black. The structure of the granules results in the nearly specular reflection of narrow wavelength bands of light and the absorption of other colours. Unedited images.
Here’s the science!
