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Most of the "locals" have left and I'm not getting as many migrants. Actually, the number of birds I have been seeing all month has been rather low. Hopefully, that isn't a sign of anything bad. We had an awfully hot dry summer.
Above is a juvenile male at my favorite photo feeder (which the raccoons managed to break the other night - just had to add some more red duct tape and a zip tie so that I can still hang the thing).
I shot this on white for (hopefully) commercial use. I boosted the ISO to 800 to get a shutter speed of 1/2500 at f/8. Hopefully not too much noise or the agency will bounce it. Downsizing helps that a bit.
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A Ruby-throated Hummingbird probes the Bee Balm on a late summer afternoon. Clarence-Rockland, Ontario.
This Hummingbird looks like it needs to put on a few grams for it does look a little skinny in my opinion.
In my yard near Lititz Pennsylvania on September 9 2012.....I shot these late in the day just before sunset. The flower is 15 feet from the ground (on my deck) and the background is a tree line in the shade 250 feet behind the Hummer. As the light fell on the Hummer and flower it caused the background to under expose and blur.
Hummingbirds are hyper little critters. One can spend hours at feeding places, take hundreds of shots and still end up only with a digital dustbin full of blurs or perfectly sharp images of empty feeders. Then suddenly,when you are supposed to learn about butterflies, one decides to be the right little poser, sit there and show off for long enough. Perhaps it was just confused because being a butterfly-sized bird at a butterfly garden where the butterflies are the size of birds that can do that to you.
Here at home, seeing a hummingbird is cause for excitement; we have only one kind, the Ruby-throated. The entire country of Costa Rica is only the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined, holds over 5% of earth's biodiversity, and has an astounding 52 species of hummingbirds, ranging in size from just over 2 inches up to 6 inches. They are as common as house sparrows are at home. The Rufous-tailed was the one we saw most, it's a medium-sized hummingbird, about 4-4.5 inches long, and under 2/10 of an ounce.
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Opted to spend my Fathers Day sitting out in the yard relaxing. Gorgeous day, and my little Hummingbird friend has come back this year and getting more comfortable with me and the camera.
I saw the hummingbirds looking at the oranges, so I dug out their feeder. It didn't take long for them to come back.
A hummingbird at a feeder at the La Paz Waterfall Gardens. There were an amazing number of them, even in pouring rain!