Colorful Hummingbirds and a Golden-crowned Kinglet

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It’s been too long since we’ve posted, and this will be short one but I wanted to give some attention to our friendly local Golden-crowned Kinglets. These little birds I always assume were called Golden-crowned because of their little yellow heads. But much like the Ruby-crowned Kinglet flashes it’s ruby mohawk when excited, the Golden-Crowned Kinglet flashes an orange mohawk! Maybe you already knew this but this was my first time noticing any orange color on the Golden-crowned Kinglet.

Not the clearest picture here but as you can see I was able to capture a brief moment where you can see an orange stripe here on the Kinglet’s head, he did not flash the mohawk but it was still fun to see. I have never spotted a Kinglet nest, likely because they prefer to stay up quite high in the trees. Kinglets will often have two broods in breeding season, as soon as the first brood can leave the nest the mother immediately begins work on the second brood while the father continues to feed the first.

This Kinglet was spotted near the Edmonds Marsh and waterfront. I also spotted my first Red-breasted Merganser, at least it was the first I’d photo’d and marked in my Merlin Life List! Mergansers are distinct looking water fowl that spend their days diving under water for fish.

And photo’d above is of course our ubiquitous Anna’s Hummingbird, there are always two to four of these little birds down near the Marsh.

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