Spending a winter in Southeast Alaska gives the tiny bird a chance to work on its torpor technique.

I was hurrying out the door to catch a ferry from Haines, Alaska, in November and was too slow to get a decent photo of an Anna’s Hummingbird. Spending a winter in Southeast Alaska gives the tiny bird a chance to work on its torpor technique.

I was hurrying out the door to catch a ferry from Haines, Alaska, in November and was too slow to get a decent photo of an Anna’s Hummingbird. Spending a winter in Southeast Alaska gives the tiny bird a chance to work on its torpor technique.

When I was a lad, most hawks were called chicken hawks, including this beautiful Red-tailed Hawk. I ate a lot more chickens than this raptor did.

When I was a lad, most hawks were called chicken hawks, including this beautiful Red-tailed Hawk. I ate a lot more chickens than this raptor did.