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A wonderful display of stuffed Humming Birds, of which this is only a part (avoiding reflections and getting some details) sits in a glass case in the Natural History Museum. The Victorians had a huge thing about Taxidermy, and bones - evolution was a new idea that was either good or evil according to ones ideas, but they loved to display anything to do with new or intriguing species, ancient or modern. The museum opened in 1881.
I got up at 4:30 this morning and drove miles to one of those rectangular states to try to sell some photos. All in all, a very mediocre day. Hardly worth the drive. Part of the problem was that someone bought a couple of my shots that were more "conversation pieces" that drew in the buyers.
Anyway, on the way home, I decided that a shot of a Hummingbird looking into the lens of the camera might be a good draw. I figured the best way to do it was to tape a little mirror onto the front of the camera and it would come to see his own reflection. Great plan. I stopped on the way home at a Dollar Store to get a cheap mirror (does anyone need the quality make-up that came with it? It's is sort of brownish-bluish-green.)
I got home, set up the camera, taped the mirror to the front, and, well, nothing. Crud! Light was leaving fast. What to do? What to do? I put the lens cover back on the lens and taped a couple of yellow flower petals to it. Then, I covered up the opening on the feeder. I figured that the bird MIGHT come to the yellow on the lens cap. The problem was that I could probably only fool him once, so I was going to have to make the shot count. As most of the hummer shots are blurred or some other problem, I was counting on slim odds.
I got exactly THREE shots off when he fell for my diabolical plan (the other two totally sucked).
So, now you know how I did it (notice that the lens cap is on the camera). Please feel free to add glowing notes of praise below.
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Every first week in September, the hummers arrive en masse. So far this year, there doesn't seem to be as many as usual, but we still have enough to warrant 3 feeders (so far). By this, I mean that you have to fill 3 feeders on a daily basis to keep them from going dry.
Some years, we've had to put out 6 or more feeders to keep the little suckers happy.
Magnificent valley around Muong Hum, in my next tour in May 2017 it will be time for plowing and rice planting
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Even though I had only a dusting of snow the poor hummers could not break through the iced up holes. Don't forget to keep on top of that. They are counting on us.
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Anna's Hummingbird
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I'm no expert but think this is a juvenile as it was darting around with what I think was the female. This little hummer was smaller in comparison.
This is an image that I took back in April using a new (to me) lighting method that is outlined below.
I learned the lighting from a book by Linda Robbins called The Hummingbird Guide. Her method is to use a minimum 0f 5 to 6 strobes, a supplied background (which my wife painted), and photograph the birds in the shade so that you don't have to overpower the sunlight. When you use multiple strobes on a subject in the shade you can use lower power settings for each flash which results in shorter flash durations which means it freezes the wing blur. I used 6 Yongnuo strobes because I wanted to use identical manual power output for each flash . One strobe was pointed at the background, one was underneath the feeder, and the other 4 strobes surrounded the feeder. The strobes were all at under 1/16th power, in manual mode, and were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N., and you can see the EXIF info on the side. This method is the only way that I've been able to photograph one of these birds with little, or no, wing blur. Down below in the first comment, you can see a picture of the setup that I used.
I've taken quite a few pictures of hummers over the years and put them an album creatively called Hummingbirds.
This little humming bird followed me into my sun room the other day!
I of course grabbed my camera and snapped a few( not very good ) shots but hey he moves a lot and very fast :)
As he flew in the house right past me I thought for sure it was a Helicopter.
My sunroom is loaded with plants and some flowering ones as well so not sure if he was after those or just lost his way!
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy
butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to them.
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The Humming Bird is the space marines' smallest and fastest vehicle, but it is too small too carry weapons. They are mostly used by medics to get to pateints on the battlefield quickly.
Delightful to see this industrious hummingbird flitting in and out of our summer flowers here on Bluebird Estates.
Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring 7.5–13 cm (3–5 in) in length. Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5 cm (2.0 in) bee hummingbird weighing less than 2.5 g (0.09 oz).
They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing-flapping rates, typically around 50 times per second, allowing them also to fly at speeds exceeding 15 m/s (54 km/h; 34 mph).[1][2]
Hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of any homeothermic animal.[3] To conserve energy when food is scarce, and nightly when not foraging, they go into torpor, a state similar to hibernation, slowing metabolic rate to 1/15th of its normal rate.[4] Wikipedia
Juvenile male ruby-throated hummingbird
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