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I am glad the Hummingbirds are still in our area, but soon they will begin their epic migration south.
My bride and I pretty much always put a hummingbird feeder out at camp site when we set up. It's pretty amazing how fast the little critters will often find it, sometimes the day we set up. This little female (rufous, I believe) found it the morning after I set up and hung around all 4 days I was at Gold Lake in Plumas County California.
I shot this frame messing around a bit with the electronic shutter on my newest camera which is a mirrorless body. Shooting fast moving stuff with the electronic shutter doesn't always work because of a phenomenon known as "rolling shutter." Basically, the camera is actually capturing multiple frames simultaneously. It does this by capturing one line at a time from top to bottom of the sensor very quickly, but not quite as quickly as the actual exposure time (in this case 1/800 of a second). Therefore, unlike the normal mechanical shutter that opens pretty much all at once, exposes all at once, and closes, movement happens as different parts of the frame are exposed. This is fine for stationary subjects but generally undesirable for fast moving subjects and can result in some really freaky distortion (I got a couple frames where the bird turned and it looked like a wing was detached from the body). However, in the case of a bird on the wing while straight at the camera it can result in some interesting motion blur like I think happened here.
The dominant males are gone so this immature male has taken up his guard post on the spent flower head guarding one feeder all day. They will be here for a couple more weeks before departing for central america.
Have a great week my friends! ~Sam
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A hummingbird flying in Los Angeles a couple months ago.
(I'm sick today, so can't go out and take photos in the rain... instead lying around at home reading and sorting out old photos and hoping my sore throat improves.)
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The resident male in my yard.
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La Paz Waterfall Gardens has a great variety of Hummingbirds to offer the visitor. Now I just have to get work on the ID's.
It was nice to see an Anna's Hummingbird at Willband CreeK Park this morning. The ones that visit my feeder have been gone for a while and I only get the occasional Rufous visiting now.
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This appears to be a juvenile male. If you look close you can see what appears to be a red feather or two on his throat and his beak seems a little short. Taken in my backyard. My hope is too get a grown male with his throat glowing in the sun before all my flowers die from the summer heat.
I want to thank Very1Silent for showing me how to use flash when shooting hummingbirds! He is a very talented and knowledgeable photographer. He set up all the lights and then I just took a few shots!
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This Rufous Hummingbird has been my feeder policeman for the last several days, chasing away any competitors for the feeders. He has a very heavily stippled throat, and in some photos, his mainly rufous-colored tail is evident. The tail feathers are slightly pointed, a trait I'd expect to get more pronounced when he returns next year. All these traits suggest he's a juvenile male, but it's hard to know for sure.
I really love this bird, it seems like my friend, we were getting closer and closer. Photo capture on 400.o mm without crop.
We like to think that this boy Anna's Hummingbird is one of the chicks that fledged in our yard this year. You know, one of our grandchicks. It seems the gorget (the red bit covering the head) is still filling in and maturing. Our feeder is very busy with lots of fights and hummingbirds chasing each other off. Its kind of entertaining.
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The Fiery-throated Hummingbird is one of my favorite Costa Rican hummingbirds so I always end up taking a ton of photos of them whenever I get the chance. I find them to be somewhat challenging to photograph since they never seem to stay in one place for very long and it is even more challenging to get a shot of their beautiful gorget flash. In this photo you can see just a little of the colors that are possible.
For more photos of this species please check out:
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