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This little guy was buzzing around picking fights with his relatives. I think its a Male Rufous Hummingbird.
Doing what it seldom does.... catch some rest... and having some deep thoughts :). Overland Park Arboretum, KS
Los Angeles County Arboretum:
When I first photographed this male hummingbird, I thought it might be Rufous. When I showed it to Lou, he thought so too. The more I look at it, I'm thinking probably Allen's. He looks different in different lighting, oh well.
One of my shots I got of the humming birds when I was at Dead Horse Ranch State Park. It always amazes me how fast they flap their wings. To keep up I had to have a very fast shutter which meant a high ISO as well to compensate.
Photo series of humming bird or as we call them here blenchi in my mango tree.
I have never seen a nest so small, the eggs looked like jelly beans, at first the color was white then the color changed to brown. When the birds came out the egg they were black and so tiny the mom would still sit on the nest.
Yesterday the last one left the nest.
It was a joy to follow these birds from the making of the nest to last one leaving the nest.
Love these little beauties ... :-)
No use of my hummer image in any form without my permission! Thank you kindly!
Hum u Istri poznat je kao najmanji grad na svijetu, zbog čega je jedno od najatraktivnijih istarskih izletničkih odredišta...
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 was experimenting with my flash that I never use. I've had it for years and I've decided I should start learning how to use it. I have two, both Pentax. One the 360 and the other the 540. This is the Pentax AF-540FGZ Flash. It works through the camera and is pretty much automatic. The only drawback is that it limits my shutter speed to 1/200. I got a few shorts though. Still the wings are blurry but you can clearly see the outline.
Ruby-throated hummingbird.
I saw her mate the other day, just after I set the camera down for a second. 😮
On April 2nd I was very excited to find a Rufous Hummingbird perched on a thin twig. I was testing out my new Sony a1 II using precapture at 30 fps hoping to get a take off shot. When I saw a blur of action as a second hummer approached the one sitting on a twig and buzzed it. It literally happened in the blink of an eye. My capture times show it all happened in .04 second!! 1/4000, f/6.3, ISO 1250 with Sony 200-600 lens.
I sat on my back porch watching a humming bird contend with a yellow jacket. It occurred to me that this was like me being confronted with a timber wolf wielding a poisonous sword.
Hovering around the feeder and garden flowers. Giving me fleeting chances for many terrible attempts to catch him in frame.
Hardest thing to get a good focus on.
The Puget Sound is humming with the sounds of many migratory humming birds, up from the south, for the warm summer in Washington.
Love these little zippy guys and galls.
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
(By Lord Byron)
Part of a wall from 1927 by architect Hendrik Wijdeveld, covered with a granite layer with decorations inspired by the Amsterdam School.
I got the thought of the 3D visualization of humming, but maybe I'm a bit strange....
This image epitomizes my latest problem with my flowers. They're so thick, I can't maneuver into closer or better position for the bird. Probably doesn't matter because there are several of them and they're busy chasing each other in between slurps. They're fast too - I'm convinced somebody's gonna pick me off. Then there's the minimum focus problem, when they decide to hover in my face and look at me. Anyway, bird is far away in this one cropped a lot but I really wanted to show the sea of flowers. You can't see that pink and red salvia, but it's in there too along with poppy orange, Lantana yellow, and the target Mexican Sage.