These tiny birds look like cute Christmas tree decorations. Inge photographed this male and female who probably arrived recently in Virginia as winter residents or transients. Ruby-crowned Kinglets breed in the north and west where they announce their territory with a remarkably loud song for a petite bird. The male on the left has a red stripe on his crown which he hasnt elevated.
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The Garden of Eden might be a metaphor for peace and, indeed, for the whole world, but todays gardens are shrunken images. They are lawns to highlight a property; or a pain to weed and mow; or a chance to