Separate yourself not from your illusions. When they are gone, you will continue to exist, but have ceased to live.(Mark Twain)

 

occasionallybirds:

Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula)

October 10, 2022

Southeastern Pennsylvania

Only the males have the ruby crowns, and they only show them when they are agitated or as a mating display.  There have been flocks of these migrating through, and I have seen the males displaying while chasing each other. I think this one just realized I was taking his photo.