You’ve seen this male Anna’s hummingbird before in my blogs.  I’m quite confident that it’s the same one I photographed last summer sitting on EXACTLY the same blackberry wands!  All the photos you see below are of the same male hummingbird, either defending a territory, trying to attract a mate or both.

I’ve spent untold hours either photographing the hummingbird or waiting for it to return to the area where I can photograph it.  I took 144 photos of the hummingbird today and ended up keeping too many… 109.  If I wanted to spend the time I could go through the photos a second time and try to eliminate near duplicates, but it’s a lot better use of my time to just store the photos.

So without further elaboration, here are some of the photos…