This is not what I had originally planned for today, that post has now been postponed until February. I changed my mind about today’s post because yesterday I was discussing these delightful birds with some friends. Looking again at the pictures I realised there were angles, spaces, shapes and lines everywhere. So obviously they had to be part of GeometricJanuary.

I was sitting on a bench enjoying an ice-cream when this gorgeous creature began making noises above me. I didn’t recognise the sounds but after a few moments of looking up I spotted it, and gosh did I smile. It was my last day in Portland, and it felt as though Robert was beside me. I obviously took a few more photos once I’d worked out where to put down my icecream!

It was not the first hummingbird who joined me on my American adventures. I was lucky enough to spot another one high above me on a walk in San Francisco, and then a second when I was enjoying breakfast in my friends’ garden in Lincoln, North California.

You will need to look as carefully as I had to look in order to spot these two hummingbirds, but hopefully you will see them both. Hoping you will also see glimpses of geometry even in these two photos.

I am pretty sure it is the same kind of hummingbird in all three locations – a Black Chinned Hummingbird.

The velvety black throat patch and shimmering green plumage are very evident at least in the Lincoln and Portland ones

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      1. No hummingbirds here. It’s too far for them to get here on there own and, amazingly, they haven’t been deliberately introduced. That’s a good thing as they would compete with native birds.

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