Grant Leavitt
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
BEST VIEWED LARGE!
This is yet another Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, but there's a twist... This feeder is a window-mount type, so it allows me to get REALLY close for those amazing shots. In fact, I was watching birds through my bins, through this window when I saw a hummer come by. He approached cautiously, and landed on the feeder. I mean this window is in the living room, so it's very big. And I'm standing inches from the window. So you can imagine how I felt when I saw this. A light-bulb went off in my head.
I gathered my father's Manfrotto tripod, set my camera up on it, and lowered the camera till it was at hummer-eye level. Unfortunately, the streaks on the glass were too distracting, so I moved the camera up so that it looked down at the feeder from a 45-degree angle. But the hummer didn't come back while the tripod was in this position. Bummer, I'll try again next week.
This weekend was a good one for me, as I counted a record 9 species of birds at our cabin, got three lifers there just in August 2006 alone, and saw my first Ring-Necked Snake!
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
BEST VIEWED LARGE!
This is yet another Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, but there's a twist... This feeder is a window-mount type, so it allows me to get REALLY close for those amazing shots. In fact, I was watching birds through my bins, through this window when I saw a hummer come by. He approached cautiously, and landed on the feeder. I mean this window is in the living room, so it's very big. And I'm standing inches from the window. So you can imagine how I felt when I saw this. A light-bulb went off in my head.
I gathered my father's Manfrotto tripod, set my camera up on it, and lowered the camera till it was at hummer-eye level. Unfortunately, the streaks on the glass were too distracting, so I moved the camera up so that it looked down at the feeder from a 45-degree angle. But the hummer didn't come back while the tripod was in this position. Bummer, I'll try again next week.
This weekend was a good one for me, as I counted a record 9 species of birds at our cabin, got three lifers there just in August 2006 alone, and saw my first Ring-Necked Snake!