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After retiring, my dad bought a Nikon and started having some fun with photography. He decided to do a hummingbird safari with Brent Paull. He had so much fun, that when he got home, he and mom put a bunch of bird feeders up on the front porch and the Bovey Bird Sanctuary, complete with wine and cheese safaris, was born.
The last time I was down there, Dad set up his flash on a tripod, and set it so that both his Nikon and my Nikon could trigger it. I never shoot birds, so this was something new for me to try.
I got one or two good images, but it was fun to try, and I got to spend some time with Dad taking pictures.
Took this at Butterfly World in Coconut Creek Florida. They have a whole section called "Jewels of the sky". Humming birds dart around you at amazing speeds.
"Hummingbirds are so amazing. They are so small and have to work so hard just to live but they are fasinating." - Lorene Kimura, 2013 myPQB Story Contest
She let me get really, really close. I actually don't know if this is a female or a young male.
I got pooed on today. Guess it was going to happen sooner or later. My lens too. Good thing it was a chickadee and not an eagle.
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds have many skeletal and flight muscle adaptations which allow the bird great agility in flight. Muscles make up 25-30% of their body weight, and they have long, bladelike wings that, unlike the wings of other birds, connect to the body only from the shoulder joint. This adaptation allows the wing to rotate almost 180°, enabling the bird to fly not only forward but also straight up and down, sideways, and backwards, and to hover in front of flowers as it feeds on nectar and insects.
During hovering, ruby-throated hummingbird wings beat 55x/sec, 61x/sec when moving backwards, and at least 75x/sec when moving forward.
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird - Eupherusa eximia egregia - Полосатохвостая эуферуза
Savegre Mountain Lodge, San Gerardo de Dota, Provincia de San José, Costa Rica,11/05/2014
The best detail I could get from this whole weekend... I was using a 70-200 f2.8 lens borrowed from my brother in law. We were shooting these birds in crossfire so we could be assured that one of us would get the shot!
While I was playing with the GoPro camera I decided to do some playing with the real gear.
I don't know if I could get a photo of a hummingbird that fills the frame any fuller than this image does.
Gear used:
Nikon D3s
Nikon SB900 Flash
Kenko Extension Tubes, stack 36mm, 20mm, 12mm
Nikon 1.4 TCII
Nikon 600 f/4 VRII
Taken at 5.31 meters