Going through my archives, I came across a photo from July 2021; one that I learned something from.
This hummer leaving the feeder in our inner front yard appears to be a female, or an Allen's. Since the Rufous are far more common here, I'm going with that.
Assuming I'm right that it's a female, what I learned is that females can display the iridescent throat patch - I was under the impression that only males do so.
Don't blame me - I didn't vote for him!
Nikon D7500 with Nikkor 18-300 mm; PSE2021, PSCS5 Ny Flickr Albums
Lovely and delicate blossoms against the greenery. Well captured.
90 to 100 - whew! We consider ourselves very fortunate to have ended up living here in Huntington Beach. About 1.5 miles from the ocean, our temps are mild: the coldest I can recall was about 35 overnight, and it seldom reaches the 90s. Plus our location is pretty much free of wild fire risk and much of the city sits on solid rock so no flooding risk. Few thunderstorms and tornadoes even more rare and quite small.
When I lived in the Midwest (Michigan and Ohio and college in Wisconsin) I experienced tornadoes up close.
once or twice a year we're rattled by earthquakes and most small; the worst one I remember hit while I was golfing: suddenly the birds stopped tweeting and there was an eerie stillness. I looked back up the fairway and saw the ground rippling as the tremor quickly approached me - even though I braced myself it nearly knocked me off my feet. Lots of damage near the epicenter north of Los Angeles, but little in our area .
Tornadoes are scary, but I can deal with that. But the ground just isn't supposed to move.
Don't blame me - I didn't vote for him!
Nikon D7500 with Nikkor 18-300 mm; PSE2021, PSCS5 Ny Flickr Albums
I agree Dave, the ground should not move! Our town has had one tornado, so far, in my lifetime, in 1962 I believe. I was in the Navy then. It took out a restaurant and other buildings. A highschool friend was working at the restaurant and hid in the walk-in cooler. Made it through safely.
I've only ever felt one very minor tremor that didn't actually register on any seismograph because they were too far away to record anything under 2 on the Richter. My area is very stable. We do get tornadoes. Not many are observed because so much of Australia is empty of people. No cyclones here because the sea is a long way away.
