What bird is this? In this week's Sunday LOL Cats, picture #5...

[3catwoman3]

...shows a cute little mom bird and her 2 babies sheltering from the rain inside a flower. Completely charming picture.

I'd love to know what both the bird and the flower are.

Here's SalmonChantedEvening's LOL Cats from today:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182085939

[Conjuay]

1. Hate to tell you this, but I don't think it's real.

[3catwoman3]

4. Hard to know in these days of AI, isn't it.

The next post does show a possibility - female black-chinned hummingbird.

[MacKasey]

2. A female black chinned hummingbird

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-chinned_hummingbird

Click on link
Let me know what you think

[3catwoman3]

3. The speckled throat certainly looks...

...very similar to the featured photo.

I'll look for more images of this cutie. Thnx.

[carpetbagger]

5. I think it's AI.

Besides the photo overall, I can't think of a hummingbird that has that supercilium and cap, neither in North America nor in the parts of the tropics I've been in. Just for kicks I put it in Merlin, no ID.

[rockbluff botanist]

6. That is totally a fake image

Photoshop is a wonderful tool. I've used it since in inception.

[3catwoman3]

7. Oh, well. It's charming nonetheless.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

8. Hummers were Mom's favorite things about her garden

We made sure our honeysuckle bush (the smell on a summer night is strong) stayed healthy for them, I saw quite a lot of green chinned ones and a few others.

[Donkees]

9. The Bee Hummingbird is the smallest hummingbird in the world:

Most likely the inspiration for the blossom photo. The blossom resembles an Abutilon. There are some photos of Bee Hummingbirds in the back pages of this group too.

The very smallest bird on Earth is the Bee Hummingbird, which can be found in the Zapata. (Cuba)