Rufous Hummingbirds — Oh How Lucky Am I Rainbows with Wings 000 miles on a body

000 miles on a body that weighs less than a nickel

and stay through the hardest winter when bigger birds give up and leave

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Rufous Hummingbirds — Oh How Lucky Am I Rainbows with Wings 000 miles on a bodyEvery hummingbird watercolor print in this group started with one of the greatest technical challenges in bird painting: iridescence. Hummingbird color isnt pigment its structural, created by microscopic feather platelets refracting light. The throat of a ruby throated hummingbird shifts from black to blazing ruby depending on the angle. A rufous hummingbird burns copper to garnet. Suggesting that in a static medium like watercolor is where my