Hummers Throw Down!

[c.j.]

Hummers Throw Down! ("…to use the parlance of the times…" Maude Lebowski)

Competition is getting pretty fierce.

Early light, no flash, so not much 'pop', but still relays the confrontational situation.


Male Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) flashes his gorget and flares his tail feathers in a challenge to the female Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus), who barely takes notice. He moved in, flashed her again, then a female Black-chinned grabbed her by the throat and pulled her off the feeder.