Create their own vibrant light.
Phaninopepla, dark as midnight,
in full light, is radiant dark blue, with deep red eyes.
Male orioles, kings of beauty, rock yellow and black,
while male grosbeaks flash black, orange and white.
Mr Jay will drive our blues away,
as hummingbirds fly their own private rainbows!
Cheers to you from The Holler’s colorful creatures~
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makes me happy
experiencing your skill
with a nice camera 🙂
Ahhhh, your very kind comment made me happy! Thank you~
Hey Cindy, Namaste 🙂
Stunning photographs as is your signature style, thank you. I’m especially drawn to the Phainopepla: the ‘silky flycatchers’, so named because of their glossy plumes. They are magnificent and as I read more about them I discover they’ve ability to imitate the bird-calls of twelve other species. Quite extraordinary: I imagine these birds might understand what they are saying when speaking in a foreign tongue and if so whether they amuse themselves by shouting out random things just to cause mischief and confusion and/or incite a reaction…hence the red-eyes made so by crying with laughter at the outcome lol 🙂
Namaste 🙂
DN
I think you described them perfectly! And since we cannot understand any of their 12 languages, they can’t possibly disagree! Thank you Dewin & Namaste <3
Namaste Cindy 🙂 If only we could talk to the animals like Doctor Doolittle: especially with the birds whose lofty world-view looks down upon our own. What stories they could tell, what vision they could share.
Thank you for beautiful photographs. Take care wherever you may be 🙂
Namaste 🙂
DN
All the best to you Dewin, from The Cook Islands!
😀 …the small flag WordPress use to denote the country the reader is in spells out ‘Cook Islands’…very cool 🙂
Hoping all is well in paradise 🙂
Namaste 🙂
DN
All is well in paradise my friend & cheers to you!
Beautiful captures, I love the hummingbirds in flight!!
Thank you. They are truly amazing precision flyers.
You are so good at capturing these beautiful birds. I love the humming birds. My sister brought me some praying mantis pods to eat the box bugs that cover the back of my house in the summer months and I don’t want to put them out in fear that they will eat the few humming birds I get here. It says they eat them and I don’t want that to happen so looks like I will have to put up with the bugs. 🙁 Haven’t been getting most notifications so I’m going through my reader to find what I missed. ;(
Mantis will eat hummers, so it is best to keep them far apart. I have to manually separate them at The Holler. Good Luck!
May just put up with the bugs and bypass the Mantis’.
Best plan definitely! <3
Those glorious colors. Magic, indeed.
They are my buddies! <3
What a lucky person you are. 🙂
In certain ways, we all are lucky, and, not.
I am lucky to know you <3
We all have our stories, good and bad, that make us who we are. We are lucky to be friends. I appreciate you, too. Thanks.
<3 <3
Hi there, Cindy! I am always excited to come and see your posts! I did get a chance to see the March posts. . .
I liked how you said the sun shines for us all and the “everyday” birds you shared with us all. xo 💐
I absolutely love your holler bird posts, especially with your sweet, rainbow colored Hummers! 😘
Hope your Spring is beautiful and special: Like you are! ❤️❤️
You are a shining light Robin. Your <3 speaks clearly and powerfully. Thank you & be well my friend~
Wow, you take some really amazing photos!!! Brilliant colors, detail amazing!!!
Grazie mille <3
Cheers back to the creature of THE HOLLER
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