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Green-backed Ruby-eye sleeping on a wall - Perichares adela
Copyright © 2009 Joshua Stuart Rose

Green-backed Ruby-eye sleeping on a wall - Perichares adela
World Birding Center at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
June 13, 2009
My other photo from the preceding November is the usual look people get at this species, high overhead nectaring in a Mexican Olive tree in the late afternoon. This one, waist-high on the outside wall of the restrooms, letting me take point-blank frame-filling photos, was decidedly atypical, in a GOOD way!

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Green-backed Ruby-eye sleeping on a wall - Perichares adela Green-backed Ruby-eye sleeping on a wall, dorsal view - Perichares adela
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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 14 June, 2009 - 12:38am

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