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Female/immature hummingbird in the hummingbird aviary of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona
Broad-Billed Hummingbird - Paton's Place, Patagonia, Arizona
Bird Species (# 154) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/592504961
Time to fulfill my hummingbird addiction. I saw lots of little Anna's hummingbirds this weekend, but none of my shots were completely spectacular. This is from the archives, a male broad-billed hummingbird in the Hummingbird aviary, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Obviously, not the best of lighting with him back lit, but bokeh's rather nice, I think. ;-)
Enjoying a pleasant cup of coffee in our yard this morning and I noticed this hummingbird zip up to our last gladiola. I managed four frames in the second it was there and then it was gone. My best guess is a female Black Chinned Hummingbird.
This juvenile male Ruby throated hummingbird is starting to get some of his red throat feathers. The birds are becoming used to me sitting quite close to the feeder and are a treat to watch. We have about four that have been chasing each other away, as they aren’t great at sharing. They have tried to chase the goldfinches off, but have not been successful.
This is an image that I took back in April using a new (to me) lighting method that is outlined below.
I learned the lighting from a book by Linda Robbins called The Hummingbird Guide. Her method is to use a minimum 0f 5 to 6 strobes, a supplied background (which my wife painted), and photograph the birds in the shade so that you don't have to overpower the sunlight. When you use multiple strobes on a subject in the shade you can use lower power settings for each flash which results in shorter flash durations which means it freezes the wing blur. I used 6 Yongnuo strobes because I wanted to use identical manual power output for each flash . One strobe was pointed at the background, one was underneath the feeder, and the other 4 strobes surrounded the feeder. The strobes were all at under 1/16th power, in manual mode, and were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N., and you can see the EXIF info on the side. This method is the only way that I've been able to photograph one of these birds with little, or no, wing blur. Down below in the first comment, you can see a picture of the setup that I used.
I've taken quite a few pictures of hummers over the years and put them an album creatively called Hummingbirds.
Second day that this Calliope Hummingbird showed up at my feeder and if the same bird as the previous day the first I have seen and first in my backyard. IMG_6978
Not a great shot - but great to see one of these little guys on the Buddleia at Stirling University today.
I only get to shoot hummingbirds once a year when I visit LA in the summers, but I can post them for months afterwards. This was shot with a Sony RX100v - amazing what that little point and shoot can do in the way of freezing motion. I set it up on a tripod near the feeder and used the remote app from a distance to take the shot. Now that I've perfected this remote app technique, I hope next summer to work on a more interesting composition.
hummingbird hawk-moth driinking nectar, region of Cherkasy, central Ukraine, an uncommon butterfly for this area.
my short film about other pollinators:
youtu.be/lOkQIrrT3Cw my 10 min film "Taste of nectar": youtu.be/ay28veH0M58
I always try to get a shot or two of my yard hummers before taking off to somewhere. Yesterday, she decided to cooperate with me by perching on this branch...but not for long. As you can see, she is just about to leave again. I caught her just in the nick of time!