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While visiting with my cousin in Post Falls, Idaho, I had the opportunity to join others who photograph these quick creatures. I must have taken over 60 photos, changing lenses in the middle of the 'run' of photos, and selectively cropping the good ones.
There were two of these birds, both different.
10 August 2014
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This is the resident male Anna's Hummingbird I call Lilac, this is his 5th winter with me and although it was 22F when I took this shot he is pretty active these days, the first couple winters he spent a lot of time sleeping when the temperature dropped but he is pretty seasoned now.
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Trying out a background. It's a light tan sheet mounted between two t-posts and about 6 feet back.
What do you think?
Sometimes I can creep close! I alwaysenjoy watching the manic behaviour of the hummers. This is a female black chinned hummingbird.3¼ inches( 8.25 cm )long and bacause of this are they are vulnerable to insect-eating birds and animals. One day I'm going to get one of these to sit on my hand...I'm working on it :)
I spent time comparing these images to female Anna's and female Black-chinned hummingbirds. I'm not convinced of my ID. Wikipedia notes that female Anna's have white tips to their tails, so do felmale black chinned. Allaboutbirds.org notes "Black-chinned Hummingbirds tend to look long billed and thin necked, and they show a white collar when perched." These seem to be shorter billed -- bill about as long as head is wide -- and are arguably stocky. But the throats seem far more clear. My ID is mostly based on the calls: the distinctive Anna's songs fill our days.
The male ruby throated hummingbird. The sun isn't hitting his throat in the right direction to show the red.
Hummingbirds are birds in the family Trochilidae, and are native to the Americas. They are among the smallest of birds, and include the smallest extant bird species, the Bee Hummingbirds. They can hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings 12-90 times per second (depending on the species). They can also fly backwards, and are the only group of birds able to do so.
A hummingbird in our back yard. Took a lot time and patience to get this close, especially, that another hummingbird was guarding this feeder as his territory. Photo by Gabor Balazs.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Jen's House, Waterloo Ontario, Canada
Nikon D300 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/500s f/6.3 at 400.0mm iso200
2 more workshops coming this weekend.. lots of birds!
This hummingbird is endemic to Cuba. Just up the road from where I was staying there is a farm that had a lookout tower on the property. At the base of this tower there were a few bushes of flowers. This is where I was able to take these shots,
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