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<\/a><\/p>\nA Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird Hovers Hesitantly<\/h2>\n
I was startled to see a male Ruby-throated Hummingbird visiting the flowers even though I knew that the long tubular shape and bright colour was a typical hummingbird lure. The tiny bird wasn’t too sure about what the clicking noise from my camera meant, so he paused from visiting the flowers long enough to look my way.<\/p>\n
As the weak sun caught his throat feathers, they flamed into red. The colour is due to iridescence so it doesn’t show up if the angle of the light shifts slightly.<\/p>\n The flowers the Humm was visiting are called Crocosmia. They grow from a corm like irises and tend to flower in the early summer. According to the Pacific Bulb Society they are native to countries in Africa.<\/p>\n Another flower I’ve seen the hummingbirds visit at the gardens at Riverwood is the Bee Balm or Monarda. Several Bee Balms are native to North America and can make a good choice for a wildflower garden.<\/p>\n I also saw a male Hummingbird visiting the Jewelweed along the Red Deer trail last week. The Pale Jewelweed has just started to open. Unfortunately, I didn’t nab any great photos of him then.<\/p>\n Seeing the Hummingbird visiting the flowers was a great start to an otherwise grey gloomy morning!<\/p>\n Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Join In<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some days you see something so perfect the moment you arrive at a park that you feel you don’t have to see anything else and the trip will still have been worthwhile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[285,676,197,675,144,196],"class_list":["post-6316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus","tag-bergamot","tag-crocosmia","tag-jewelweed","tag-riverwood","tag-riverwood-conservancy","tag-ruby-throated-hummingbirds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6342,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions\/6342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nWhat Are These Curved Sprays of Red Orange Tubular Flowers in the Garden?<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWhat Ontario Native Flowers Will Attract Hummingbirds?<\/h2>\n
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\nHummingbirds will visit both Pale and Spotted Jewelweed, shown above.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\nDo Hummingbirds hang out in a garden near you? Please share your favourite sighting with a comment.<\/p>\n