The diminutive Snowcap is Costa Rica’s smallest hummingbird and at 2 1/2 inches is just a quarter inch longer than the world’s smallest hummingbird, the Bee Hummingbird of Cuba. The few times I’ve seen a Snowcap in Costa Rica, it has always been the midst of a Blue Porterweed hedge that usually is a mass of stems and leaves and flowers, making it difficult to see the tiny Snowcap amidst the chaos. I was lucky that he briefly flew to an isolated flower stem with no distractions. Although I captured other images of the Snowcap that were closer, those images had lots of distractions. In the end, I think having the Snowcap so small in the frame illustrates just how tiny he is and shows the environment in which he lives, and, with the clean background, you can’t help but see him.