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The resident male in my yard.
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I really love this bird, it seems like my friend, we were getting closer and closer. Photo capture on 400.o mm without crop.
The bird breeds in mountains from the southwestern United States to western Panama. It inhabits the edges and clearings of montane oak forests from about 2000 m altitude up to the timberline. The oldest recorded Magnificent Hummingbird was a male, and at least 11 years old when he was recaptured and rereleased during banding operations in Arizona.
Archilochus colubris
I spent almost a month traveling in Peru and as fantastic as that was I did on plenty of occasions think about the migration I was missing back here in Houston. I thought it was pretty funny to be photographing Paradise Tanagers and worrying about the common birds of home but there you go. Anyway, I had a chance this morning to check out the Xtreme Hummingbird Xtraviganza put on by the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory in Lake Jackson, TX and boy am I glad I did. They put on a great event where I enjoyed two very entertaining talks by Mike Williams and Cliff Shackelford on bird photography and hummingbirds (wow Cliff is an amazing presenter!) and of course clicked a few shots of the hummers who showed up in good numbers. What a fun day!!!
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One from a few years ago at the Wakanki orquidiario that I've only just discovered. I don't have an id for this bird so any help appreciated. :)
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The Fiery-throated Hummingbird is one of my favorite Costa Rican hummingbirds so I always end up taking a ton of photos of them whenever I get the chance. I find them to be somewhat challenging to photograph since they never seem to stay in one place for very long and it is even more challenging to get a shot of their beautiful gorget flash. In this photo you can see just a little of the colors that are possible.
For more photos of this species please check out:
www.pbase.com/dadas115/fierythroated_hummingbird
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Winner, Nature's Best Backyard 2014,
Highly Commended Denver Audubon 2014,
Juried into Nature Visions 2014
I wonder what hummingbirds are thinking as they sit and stare. This is my little friend from an earlier shoot, still dreaming...
This Magnificent Hummingbird is one of many that we photographed last October in the mountains of Costa Rica. With so many well populated hummingbird feeders in the country it is no surprise that I always come home with a ton of hummingbird photos.
Eugenes fulgens
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Male Ruby Throated Hummingbird. I am messing around with camera settings and have come to realize, there is no set setting to use. I am speaking for myself. I have tried high ISO, low ISO, etc. I don't like the high ISO because of the noise, but personally, I do not like a lot of wing blurr. This summer I am just going to wing it and hope I get lucky :)
We randomly stopped in at the Hotel Tolimán for a coffee, and we were pleasantly surprised at how beautiful it was and how they had hummingbird feeders set up all around the lunch area so we could watch hummingbirds in beautiful tropical colors while we ate. If I had known, I would have brought my a6000 and telephoto lens, but instead I made do with my RX100v. You can see two hummingbirds at the feeder (as well as some bees), and an inlet of Lake Atitlán behind them.
Hummingbirds tend to be very territorial, so instead of sharing these multiple plentiful feeders, they spend half their time chasing each other away from them. I took several high speed burst shots from this vantage point and got lots of photos with silhouettes of one hummingbird chasing another. I’d like to blend them into one photo showing lots of hummingbirds at once, but since it was handheld, I don’t think I’ll get good results out of a tool like StarStax that doesn’t do any intelligent matching of objects in blending. Any tips on how else to easily merge them?
An extreme closeup of the gorget of a Fiery-throated Hummingbird (wild, unrestrained). Photographed in the Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica.
Canon 7DM2 | Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS ii with Kenko Extension Tubes | 1/200th | f/13 | ISO 1250
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If you'd like to see more of my hummingbird images, check out my latest blog post: The 15 Most Spectacular Hummingbirds!