Return of the Cheering up Bird- Hummingbird

Good Morning. Happy Monday.
The Cheering-up bird is back on Weirdbeautiful today with this wonderful image of a Hummingbird leaving some Montbretia (Crocosmia sp.) flowers. The picture is by Mila Zinkova and it is not the first time her work has appeared on Weirdbeautiful (or wikipedia, for that matter). Mila Zinkova also took this swallow tail butterfly image (posted on Weirdbeautiful back in March) and this picture of the Californian quail (cheering-up bird number 20) .

Today's hummingbird image has a creative commons 3.0 GNU licence (for license details click [HERE]).

While I am on the subject of beautiful images, take a look at this shot of a Cabbage white butterfly (presumably) feeding on Buddleia- http://www.flickr.com/photos/28865736@N04/3808612720/ This is from Chris Owens's photostream on Flikr.

Cheering-up bird 7- Anna's Hummingbird

This week's cheering-up bird is a male Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna). "Anna" in this case was Anna Massena, 2nd Duchess of Rivoli, who lived in the 19th Century and whose husband was a keen amateur ornithologist (as well as being a Duke and Prince...). This beautiful species lives on the west coast of North America.

This picture was taken by Janine Russell and originally posted here- http://www.flickr.com/photos/janinerussell/2419059438/