Hummingbird Fall Banquet

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Crimson-eyed Rose mallow ©Kim Smith 2014Native Crimson-eyed Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moshuetos)

Fall Blooms for Tiny Travelers ~ just as we can create milkweed corridors in summer and aster corridors in autumn for the Monarchs, we can provide a nourishing banquet for the weary Ruby-throated Hummingbirds so that they may rest and refuel on their southward migration.

Lonicera John Clayton. ©Kim Smith 2010.Native Honeysuckle ~ Lonicera sempervirens ‘John Clayton’

Jewelweed ©Kim Smith 2014Native Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)

Hibiscus ©Kim Smith 2014jpg copyHibiscus 

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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden."

6 thoughts on “Hummingbird Fall Banquet”

  1. Fantastic photos, Kim. I especially like thew hummer in flight. We have gotten quite a few good pics of them perching or hovering, but none with such a fantastic blur of wings. Amazing. We are seeing some Monarchs here in Missouri but they seem much less numerous in our area than in prior years, despite the milkweed that grows fairly widely. I almost hit one in our car today, but it was swept over us and fluttered off, apparently unharmed, thank goodness.

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    1. Thank you Bob. They are THE most challenging to photograph in flight as they zoom around our garden! I am sorry to hear there were fewer than usual in Missouri. When we lived in CA, they used to fly into our windows very frequently. We get so few here (relative to my sister-in-law in Ohio) because Cape Ann is so far east.

      By the way, how far you are you from St. Louis? Did you happen to catch the giant cloud of Monarchs that passed over St. Louis? There were so many in fact that they showed up on radar screens. Coincidentally, the cloud of migrants took the shape of a giant butterfly!

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  2. Beautiful shots here and the hummingbird catches are great…Come around moms flowers a lot front yard or the nectar feeders she put out:-) Dave & Kim:-)

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