Woodstar Hummingbirds are some of my favorite. I didn’t experience them until I went to Ecuador which is home to a few different species. Woodstars are very small and they float around like Bumblebees, rather than how you normally see Hummingbirds move about. Watching them float from flower to flower is very mesmerizing.

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I will be sporadically posting more photographs from Ecuador. I don’t want to say that they are from Ecuador within each post as that might get repetitive. Instead, you can check the tags associated with each post if you’d like to find out where the shot was taken.

In case you don’t know how blogs work, all posts have assigned “tags” and “categories”. Only the category shows up on the main Field Notes feed. Tags can be found by clicking a specific post and scrolling down past the free wallpaper downloads. Categories are very general like Birds, Mammals, Insects, Fungi, Landscapes, etc. Tags are a little more refined, like Sword Billed Hummingbird, Hummingbirds, Ecuador, etc. You can click on a category or tag to see more photos within that category or tag. So if you click on the bird category, you will see all of my bird posts. If you click on the Hummingbird tag then you will see all posts tagged with Hummingbird. I hope this is helpful along with the search function where you can search any of those terms.

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Another shot of a Black Tailed Trainbearer from my Ecuador trip earlier this year.

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While at the Los Angeles Arboretum for the Wild Mushroom Fair, my wife and I took a walk around the property. There wasn’t much opportunity for wildlife photographs but I did get a few shots. This photograph of an Allen’s Hummingbird is actually one of my favorite photographs I’ve taken now. My guess is that the Hummingbird’s perch is a type of Agave plant… Aloe maybe… I don’t really know but it is very cool looking, especially with its pink tips. I also love when Hummingbirds shake around and stretch and fluff their feathers. This photograph was taken while it was shaking about which lead to a cool detailed shot with the tail feathers separated. The dark background really sets off the plant and the Hummingbird.

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I was fortunate to get another view of the Violet Tailed Sylph on this flower.

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I waited a while for this Violet Tailed Sylph to land on this Bromeliad flower. At least I think it’s a Bromeliad flower. I’m not a walking Encyclopedia and I could get things wrong here or there in my Field Notes.

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The ninth and final in the series. This was actually the last photo in the series that I posted but I posted these so quickly that you are probably seeing this as the first photo in the series and you are in for a treat because you will get to see the rest, right after this one. Enjoy this special series of this Velvet Purple Coronet.

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The eighth in the series.

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The seventh in the series.

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