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This immature female has been hanging around my feeder for the last couple of days. This picture does not show how small she really is. I've seen bugs that are bigger.
Shot with my Sigma 120-400mm with an on camera flash at f9.0 1/200 sec
I just took these a couple of hours ago! After getting some nectar, she went to a nearby limb and spread out in this funny way! I wondered if she is migrating through and was just exhausted!
Taken 9-4-12 in Louisville, KY
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Friday evening, these two little females fluttered around the feeder for ever it seems. They usually chase each other away but that evening, with the light fading, they seemed to want to play together.
A juvenile male ruby-throated hummingbird in flight.
Setup shot: www.flickr.com/photos/jasonpaluck/3653092100/
Here's a blog post about my hummingbird shots, with setup information:
www.paluck.com/2011/01/31/hummingbird-photography/
Strobist: Three 580EXII on stands surrounding the feeder at 1/64 +1/3 at around 10" away. Waited until the ambient dropped well below the flash exposure, 1/250 @ f/11, ISO 100 to knock the background to black. This left me about 10 minutes to shoot, triggering with Pocket Wizards.
Another trip back to Aug 2015 and Ruby Throated Hummingbirds in my garden. Late Aug and early Sept this year seemed to be the best time to capture them. This series is from one or two days in late Aug.
I was hoping to capture a few feeding on flowers in my garden but they were all about the feeder today.
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.
We have 2 juvenile hummingbirds that hang around with their mom all day long. This juvenile was resting between flights to my many hummingbird-friendly flowers.
Jerry Acton
Berkshire, NY
Cloudy day today but the baby ruby-throated hummingbirds were active in our garden, so I had to get out and get some photos. Slower shutter speed than I would have liked, but I ended up happy with the wing blur in this photo of the little hummer with its beak deep into a monarda flower.