The image of a humming bird is digitized onto heart shaped charms and is flipped to make right and left. A mother-of-pearl opal glaze beneath the pictures seems to glow up through the transparent images making the hummingbird appear luminous and metallic.

Heart charms (20 X 20mm) are brass and polymer, treated with multi-coats of an enamel-like glaze that gives the mother-of-pearl opal effect on gold version and an ivory opal effect on the silver. Bails are gold or silver plated (you choose) and fishhooks surgical steel.

Measures aprx. 2 inches from top of fishhook to tip of heart. Available with gold plated bail (as shown) or silver plated bail. Matches pendant or brooch seen below.

• Plants that depend on the hummingbird for pollination have trumpet shapes to accommodate the long bills and lack perches at the lip which discourages bees, butterflies and other non-pollinating insects. Hummingbirds have no ability to smell, so the flowers do not need to be scented.

• Hummingbirds can live a decade or more in the wild.

• Hummingbirds have weak feet and are more at ease using their wings even to shift in the nest or on a perch. Hummingbirds are 30% flight muscles.They have the fastest wing beats of any bird with an average flight speed of 25-30 mph and can dive up to 60 mph.

• Many ruby-throats make a 2,000 mile journey between Canada and Panama. The trip includes a non-stop, 500 mile flight over the Gulf of Mexico.