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Hovering Hummer

This tiny terror was coming in for a landing at my sister's feeder this afternoon. I used a 300 mm lens with a 1.4 teleconverter, so with the multiplication factor of 1.5 it was effectively a 630 mm lens. This is quite a tight crop to make this bird look so big. This was taken with a shutter speed of 1/3000 second, so you can imagine how fast its wings were beating.

 

More hummingbird pictures are in my Hummingbird set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157627149575339/.

 

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Uploaded on August 25, 2011
Taken on August 25, 2011