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Ruby-throated hummingbirds, or all hummers for that matter, are remarkable in flight, as shown below.
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However, only on rare occasion have I come across a perched hummingbird (a female, since her throat is white, not red).
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Hummers are such trim little things while flying. Where did she get all those feathers to fluff out so?
The female hummingbird is a little less fluffed here, but I thought the open bill to be interesting. She doesn't appear to be so much perching on the branch but to be a part of it.
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The point to fluffing seemed to be for relaxing and preening.
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From other photos, it appears to me that the ruby-throated hummingbird, or Fluffy, can swivel her head 180 degrees.
Photo note: I used a Pentax *ist D, with the SMC-A* 200mm macro lens for the first image and the SMC 1000mm reflex lens for the remaining ones.
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