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My sweet Winter Hummer, a female Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna). I was sitting outside at the front door enjoying the sunshine this morning, when this little bird came in, hovered and checked me out for a few seconds. She then buzzed off to resume her hectic winter schedule of feeding. They must feed at least every 15 minutes of less to keep up their body temperature! Not much time for anything else in life!
Hand held Z8. Experimenting with high ISO and shutter speed. This is a "first effort" but I'm pretty happy with it!
Came across this humming bird as I was walking around today..
He seems to want to make friends with me, so here I am stupidly holding out my arm in the hope he will land on me...Yes! yes! I know that they only stop to drink nectar from flowers. But ya never know do ya lol...
I was pleased though that I managed to get him in my picture because he is very fast along with my latest purchase from ~ Merc~, these shorts fit perfect on my eBody but you will be able to see at the store and on market place that they fit most of the major bodies out there and they come in a variety of great colours too...You will notice when you put these on that that have a pair of sunglasses on the left side for a bit of added enhancement..
Be sure to check out the store and MP
Till next time Hugz
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I thought the humming birds had left but only the male has migrated. The female and the juvenal are still hanging around. I looked up info on this. The male leaves and the female and young build up fat for their flight and there is not competition. I notice the two of them where not battling like the male and female. I believe this is the female she has more color and the juvenal is very plain
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I fixed some of the problems that were noted in the original of this photo. The original had lots of Jpg artifacts caused by (i think) the software I used at the time, and the fact that I was saving everything as low quality so I could upload over my slow dial up (also been fixed).
This one was done using 1500watt work lights that I purchased today to try out as cheapo studio lights. I think they do ok for 70 bucks. Plus they also make great work lights in the shop. :)
earlier version here --- www.flickr.com/photos/eddy/37490460/in/set-597829/
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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