pathopharmacology:

It’s next to impossible to get decent photos of hummingbirds on my phone (through the front window, no less) but I felt the need to share this angry little lady, who took up residence in our front yard about eight months ago and has been enthusiastically dive-bombing LITERALLY EVERYTHING since. She is very chilly right now and also very fluffy, and shortly after this photo was taken she tried to pick a fight with a small flock of bushtits, presumably on the grounds that they dared to exist in her presence.

(the bushtits, for their part, couldn’t care less, and our Small Lady Of Fluff and Rage was left to return to her perch so she could yell at everything for a good five minutes)

#fun fact: anna’s hummingbirds are one of the few where females and males both have throat coloration#hence the little throat patch on our small lady of fluff and rage here#we have several males who come by as well#sometimes she lets them hang out and sometimes she immediately tries to fight them#i will never get over how ridiculously territorial these TEENY TINY birds are#NEVER