
This is a juvenile Berylline Hummingbird, a hummer that in past years has been elusive. This year, however, we had at least one adult and a couple of juveniles like this bird and even a hybrid Berylline/Broad-billed Hummingbird. I first noticed the web caught on its wing when it flew to a feeder. About ten minutes later, it reappeared with the web still attached. You’d think that it could not stay attached given the speed with which their wings beat but indeed it did stay. It must have picked up the web when it flew into one of the nearby shrubs to perch. Because the sun was out, my shutter speed was pretty fast, freezing most of the motion of the wing and clearly showing the web. I am still reviewing my images to see if I managed to capture the hybrid thinking it was a Broad-billed. Watch this space in case I did.