Ruby-throated Hummingbirds with Trumpet Flower — Gallery Canvas Print Size:9" x 12" nose down toward something in

nose down toward something in the frozen grass at the lower left

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird watercolours have been collected internationally for over five decades

the sky above fading from pale yellow at the horizon through blue to the first grey of approaching night

Glen's interest in wildlife was never limited to the Canadian north

the rust-orange throat

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds with Trumpet Flower — Gallery Canvas Print Size:9" x 12" nose down toward something inTwo Ruby throated Hummingbirds at a Trumpet Vine one hovering to feed, one perched and watching the orange red trumpet flowers large and vivid around them. The Trumpet Vine is co evolved with hummingbirds, its flower shape and colour adapted to exactly these birds, and Glen painted the relationship with the same ecological awareness he brought to his columbine hummingbird composition. The two birds allow a comparison of postures: the hovering bird's