Broad-billed Hummingbird

The last of my three rapid-fire vacation back blip posts.
Check out the first two: a Rufous hummingbird and a male Black-chinned hummingbird (with a female extra).  Hope you like them.

Today I'm posting my fourth different species of hummingbird in as many days! This is a Broad-billed hummingbird - a nice colorful male. I chose to use the shot I caught in flight because it's not easy but I added one perched as an extra so you can get a really good look at his colors.  The orange bill is a dead give-away when you're around here.  There must be other hummingbirds in the new world with similar colored bills, just none I have heard of on this side of the border.

I hope everyone has enjoyed seeing such a wide variety of hummingbirds from this trip. Don't get spoiled. This sort of thing only happens twice a year. It was also nice to photograph these little gems again.  It's been quite a while.  I haven't really had my backyard set up for critters of any sort for two years. My heart hasn't been in it.  I hope that enthusiasm returns.  We'll see, I guess.

“You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.”
—George Burns