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I'd like you to meet 'Harriett' who has been my guest this year at the feeder outside my home office window.
I'm amazed by these little marvels and I've invested some time this year in learning how to photograph them. This is one of my recent efforts...enjoy!
PS: If you are interested in hummingbird photography, I've written a detailed "how-to" article you might find helpful: www.firefallphotography.com/hummingbird-heaven/
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Put up the feeders after a long business trip. Changed the chef and revamped the menu. Sent mass email to the birds in the area with coupons.
Marketing resulted in more hits in a day than in a week last year.
Just keep them coming
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird - for the first time this week I had the opportunity to capture hummingbirds..... what a challenge. Needless to say my success rate was very low but they say you only need one. Now that I know where they hang around and return every half hour or so, I will be busy this week practicing :o)
The video is slowed to 5% of the real time. It took less than one second for this hummingbird to feed on a bloom of the Rose of Sharon bush.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - for the first time this week I had the opportunity to capture hummingbirds..... what a challenge. Needless to say my success rate was very low but they say you only need one. Now that I know where they hang around and return every half hour or so, I will be busy this week practicing :o)
I had been a little confused about the males' throat patches. Perhaps I just forgot some of what I found out about Ruby-throated Hummingbirds the last time I looked them up. Of late, I was thinking that the throat patches of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds were either red or white and that white patches could signify either sex and that red, denoting maleness, would show up only if the light were right. I am glad to learn (or re-learn). that the throats can appear white (female), black (male), or red (male). I know: I am telling most of you what you already
know. Forgive me.
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