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(ARCHILOCHUS COLUBRIS)-FIELD MARKS-metallic green above adult male has brilliant red throat, black chin, whitish underparts, dusky green sides- female has whitish throat;grayish below,buffy wash on sides.
I think this Rufous Hummingbird was limbering up ahead of migration. With a 2000 mile journey ahead of him he'll appreciate the warm up. Cochrane, Alberta.
I had to crop this image severely. My telephoto lens has a minimum focus of something like 10 feet. This flying critter stood there for about 5 minutes while I snapped photos. In this one, you can see the critter's tongue. Perhaps it likes the sugar water that I make for it.
More hummingbird pictures. I am running out of ways to compose these to make them look different, so I am not sure how many more will get posted.
Week 38 theme is "depth of field". I shot this in our backyard with a 200mm 2'8 Nikon lens. Cropped in Lightroom 3.
Female Ruby throated Hummingbird. She seemed to love getting her picture taken. The flash didn't bother her at all. She stayed as calm as could be,drank then looked at me, then repeated. She kept coming back at different times during the shoot and acted the same way.
Likely a black-chinned hummingbird really enjoying the water sprinkler as I watered trees in my yard. Montell, Uvalde County.
This Ruby-throated Hummingbird has been hanging out on my Mexican Sunflowers all day. Something is not quite right with it. Maybe the heat has gotten to it, maybe something worse. It's a little slow and hardly scared of me. It's been sitting on the flowers all day. Hopefully, it'll be OK. Regardless, I'm thankful it allowed me to get the best photo I could possibly get of a Hummingbird, and I'm happy I've been able to provide a spot for it to rest and eat. If you want Hummingbirds, Mexican Sunflowers are the way to go. I've grown them for two years now and they really bring in the Hummingbirds, Bumble Bees and butterflies, specifically Monarchs and Swallowtails.