Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

[Marie2020]

My favorites.
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Yummy

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Thank you for my oldie but goodie primrose as the photo of the week …that is one of the oldest plants in my garden … almost 25 years in the same spot. Blooms on time every year. Nice to see plants that are consistent and blooms thru rain and snow in late winter.

Marie - That color is called English Blue … just for you…

 

[Marie2020]

Thank you for my oldie but goodie primrose as the photo of the week …that is one of the oldest plants in my garden … almost 25 years in the same spot. Blooms on time every year. Nice to see plants that are consistent and blooms thru rain and snow in late winter.

Marie - That color is called English Blue … just for you…

Thank you

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Miss Poppy ‘Wing Fanning’, a high-energy mechanism that enables their unique, helicopter-like flight capabilities.

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[Marie2020]

Miss Poppy ‘Wing Fanning’, a high-energy mechanism that enables their unique, helicopter-like flight capabilities.


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That's a fabulous capture

The colours in this bird is just stunning

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Thank you Marie…
Every once in awhile these lil guys are so busy romancing they forget the camera is there.

 

[SPedigrees]

That blue of the flowers is both startling and beautiful!

I can't get over how you have hummingbirds year round. "Mine" won't be returning until May. That florescent plumage looks like something transplanted from the tropics, and indeed my ruby-throated hummers do spend the bulk of their lives in places where palm trees grow and the snow never falls. They just come here to nest for a few short summer months.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

@SPedigrees to help answer why hummingbirds don’t stay in Vermont and why they stay in Oregon … well…. Suri said..Hummingbirds leave Vermont for winter because their food sources like nectar producing foods and insects disappear with long freezing temps. They cannot survive without food and freezing temps. Hummingbirds leave Vermont for the winter then return when food is abundant.

Anna's Hummingbirds stay in Oregon during winter due to winter adaptation, increased food availability and human provided-feeders & warmer urban microclimates . Their northward range expansion, aided by winter-blooming plants, allows them to survive by entering an energy-conserving state of "torpor" at night.

 

[SPedigrees]

I guess it's just puzzling to me how Oregon, at the same latitude as Vermont (44.00000) can have winter food sources available. Here, even in cities, there are no microclimates, winter-blooming plants, or insect life. Birds that winter-over here subsist on seeds and berries left over from autumn, (but nothing that a hummingbird would eat). The sap right now is frozen solid in the trees, insects are months away from hatching, and nothing will bloom before April.

 

[flowerbug]

hummingbirds also can eat gnats or any of the tiny other flies or insects that can come out at lower temperatures. we see them hatching in the woods and they look like someone has sprinkled black pepper all over the snow.