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The rains have brought out the Hummingbird's food sources and the birds are making appearances around the area.
Every year, we get a lot of them on their way to migration...I can never get enough watching them, and, what else....taking tones of pictures. I have 4-6 feeders out there, and have to fill them twice a day..but I don't mind at all.
Hope you like this pic of my captures. Oh, the blueish look on the wing and the beak..came this way out of the camera. Don't know how this happened....
Thanks for taking the time to stop by, and have a great weekend.
I came across 5 Anna's Hummingbirds at the feeders at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve. Nobody was feeding but they were chasing each other off the favorite perches.
The first time I have ever seen a Hummingbird and I don't have my shutter speed fast enough. This is the only one that was sort of in focus.
Our tour finishes tomorrow and we have two days in Vancouver before flying home. It has been wonderful, but we are both feeling weary and it will be good to go home.
In La Boca near Trinidad on Cuba, this little, cute Hummingbird visited us and the flowers around every day. We just had to sit in our swing chairs at our a patio and had to wait for him coming. But as long as it has taken sometimes until he came, as fast he bustled around and flied away. Sometimes he looked like a flash.
What you can see on the picture was the only time I have seen him just sitting around and relaxing for a minute.
The smallest hummingbird within its range, is found only in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama.
I stood behind my tripod and camera in my back yard last night in the dark and took photos of hummingbirds. Well, it was almost dark and that is why these photos are so grainy (noisy). I even got a few sharp photos at very low shutter speeds which surprised me. Nevertheless I deleted most of my shots. I saw at least 2 Anna's, 2 rufous, and 1 black-chinned hummingbird. They of course were chasing each other most of the time. A rufous chased the black-chinned just before I was able to snap a photo. I had a chickadee try to land on my tripod while I was taking the hummingbird photos. IMG_3493
Photographed at my home.
I have been seeing a black-chinned male about once a day and wonder if some of the birds I have identified as Anna's are actually female black-chinned hummingbirds. I don't recall if this one was pumping her tail but one that I did not photograph last night was pumping her tail and was likely a black-chinned female. If my id is incorrect please let me know.
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Madera Canyon, AZ
We saw 11 kinds of hummingbirds on this trip, and I spent a lot of time trying to photograph them. I don't believe there is a better place to see hummingbirds in the US than southeast AZ.
The Broad-billed Hummingbird is one of the easier species to photograph because they dominate the feeder areas, and then stick around and pose, compared with say the Rufous who chases everyone and doesn't come back. They also hover a lot when they feed.
I'm afraid I will be posting rather a lot of hummingbird shots....
Female Anna's Hummingbird. Anna's hummingbirds are the only hummingbirds to spend the winter in northern climates.