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special thanks to Neutron and Vortex for the Mandevillia. The Oswego is almost gone so a possible alternate for the hummingbirds.
When these Cuban Emerald hummingbirds are in bright sunlight they really sparkle! It's hard to tone down the highlights.
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Thanks for looking, etc.:)
Standing guard.
This little guy "guards" the humming bird feeders and chases others away. That is until he flies off to visit other feeders.
I recently had a chance to spend a number of hours photographing Broad-Tailed hummingbirds in northern Colorado. What I have concluded, is that if these birds were any larger and carnivorous.....humans would not exist! These tiny and speedy birds are incredibly territorial and spend much of their day fighting over who should get to visit the feeders. One of my greatest photographic challenges is capturing these mighty little fighters with my camera. So much has to fall into place to be able to get 2 birds in focus in one image. This is why it takes hours of trying and waiting.
I photographed this hummingbird headed towards one of our feeders back in April of 2016. Normally I use strobes for hummingbird photography, but in this case the strobes and stands weren't set up so I went with fast shutter speed and no depth of field.
Other humming bird pictures that I've taken can be seen in my creatively titled Hummingbirds album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157627149575339
Hummingbirds are coming back to my back yard feeders so I pulled out the camera today. I couldn't match quality from last year yet though, so here's one from last year.
Every summer I wait for humming birds. The majority of North American hummingbirds fly to Mexico or Central America for the winter. While these journeys aren't as long as those made by South America-bound warblers, they are impressive nonetheless, especially considering the diminutive size of hummingbirds.
Hummingbirds are among the smallest types of birds and can only be found naturally in the Americas. Hummingbirds are so small that its smallest species weighs less than a penny :) :)
This shot was a surprize. After trying a number of times and getting a number of shot most of which were not acceptable because the sun is coming in from the left and the right was usually darker than I wanted. a couple shots had a portion of it's neck radient. This one was interesting to me because I had never seen the neck red without it being reflective.