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He feeds everyday from the same flowers!
If I am not mistaken this is the same one I captured flying sometime ago!
One of my relatives has a hummingbird feeder set up right next to their house window. I sat at the window last time I came up here 7 years ago and more than enough pictures of hummingbirds. :Q
Taken at Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada, on April 18 2014.
I have not spent nearly enough time with these birds in my many years of birding so it was awesome to watch about 15 birds feeding on salmonberry flowers around the lagoon.
My Canon EOS 60D was in for sensor cleaning so I was using a Canon EOS Rebel T1i. A good camera but it doesn't focus as fast and accurately as the 60D.
Mr. HelloYarn got all David Attenborough on the hummingbirds today and waited until they bravely came near to drink so he could take photos.
They're funny little buggers, starting fights with each other and hogging the food.
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.
(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.
As of yesterday the hummingbird babies have fledged. These were taken in the last couple of days before they left the nest. They got to be quite cute
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.
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!
A hummingbird can stand still for minutes, like this one, which kindly posed for a long time. But when it moves, it does it very quickly!
1/2000 was not enough!
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
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