Rufous Hummingbirds

I'm dropping back a couple of days to photos I took in the yard earlier this week, all of female Rufous hummingbirds.  (The blog software allows you to click on the images to enlarge them.)

We have several patches of crocosmia in the yard and it's a favorite with hummingbirds and makes for a great background.  In this photograph the hummingbird has inserted its beak in a single bloom and has extended its tongue through the bloom and out the other side.  This gives you some idea of how the hummingbirds manage to reach food at the base of trumpet-shaped flowers such as this or in hummingbird feeders. 

And another photo of a hummingbird resting on the crocosmia in between feeding sessions.